Gown
[gaʊn] or [ɡaʊn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions.
(noun.) outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions.
(noun.) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations.
(noun.) the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; 'the relations between town and gown are always sensitive'.
(verb.) dress in a gown.
丹尼尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A loose, flowing upper garment
(n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
(n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
(n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
(n.) Any sort of dress or garb.
手打:罗莎琳德
解釋/意思:
n. a woman's upper garment: a long loose robe worn officially by clergymen lawyers college lecturers &c.—v.t. to invest with the gown.—adj. Gowned dressed in a gown.—ns. Gown′man Gowns′man one whose professional habit is a gown as a divine or lawyer and esp. a member of an English university.
黛西手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
If you dream that you are in your nightgown, you will be afflicted with a slight illness. If you see others thus clad, you will have unpleasant news of absent friends. Business will receive a back set. If a lover sees his sweetheart in her night gown, he will be superseded. See Cloths.
手打:奥斯伯特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
From Lat. gaudium, joy. A thing of beauty and a joy forever; if from Paris, generally an article of some Worth.
編輯:斯坦利
例句/造句/用法:
- I fancy I am rather a favourite; he took notice of my gown. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sewed into my gown,' with her hand upon her breast, 'is just enough to lay me in the grave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She put on a night-cap and gown. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I took off my silk gown to begin with, because the slightest noise from it on that still night might have betrayed me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- She put a white gown on me and pinned it at the neck in back with a safety pin. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Your wife might get her some ear-rings, or a new gown, or some such truck, to make up with her. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- After leaving Miss Rachel's room, I stopped a moment on one of the landings, by myself, to see if I had got the paint-stain by any chance on MY gown. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The book, however, had been left in the billiard-room, so I pulled on my dressing-gown and started off to get it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Here is a night-gown for you to wear. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Mr. Bhaer left it all to her, so she chose a pretty gown for Tina, and then ordered out the shawls. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Here, Sarah, come to Miss Bennet this moment, and help her on with her gown. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I don't like your gown, but I do think you are just splendid. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She couldn't wear one of your gowns, could she, by any letting down, or such matter? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- She is eighteen, or at least seventeen--old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Only as I have neither husband nor child to give me natural duties, I must make myself some, in addition to ordering my gowns. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- No, I wouldn't, for the smart caps won't match the plain gowns without any trimming on them. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She was quite shocked when I asked her whether wine was allowed at the second table, and she has turned away two housemaids for wearing white gowns. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She makes gowns. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But Lily wears a great many smart gowns-- I like her to be well-dressed--it's only suitable! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- How would he propose to keep Miss Sykes in gowns only? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She went to great expenses in new gowns, and bracelets, and bonnets, and in prodigious feathers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But I've plenty of grand gowns,--a week ago, I should have said they were far too grand for anything I should ever want again. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Aster! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She's a well-favoured maid enough, said Humphrey the furze-cutter, especially when she's got one of her dandy gowns on. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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