Spruce

[spruːs] or [sprʊs]

解释:

(noun.) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea.

(noun.) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork.

埃尔伯特编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.

(a.) The wood or timber of the spruce tree.

(a.) Prussia leather; pruce.

(n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.

(n.) Sprightly; dashing.

(v. t.) To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.

(v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.

埃莉诺校对

同义词及近义词：

a. Neat (without elegance), trim, nice, trig, line, finical, smart, jaunty, natty, foppish, dandyish.

v. n. Prink, dress finically.

v. a. Trim, deck, dress.

厄玛编辑

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Neat, finical, trim, smug, tidy, smart, foppish, dandified, jaunty

ANT:Slovenly, untidy, untrim, disorderly

布伦达编辑

解释:

adj. smart: neat dapper: over-fastidious finical.—n. Prussian leather.—v.t. to smarten.—v.i. to become spruce or smart.—n. Spruce′-fir or merely Spruce any tree of the genus Picea of the pine family (Conifer) or the wood of such a tree.—adv. Spruce′ly.—n. Spruce′ness.—v.t. Spru′cify to smarten.

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