Spruce
[spruːs] or [sprʊs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea.
(noun.) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork.
埃尔伯特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
埃莉诺校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Neat (without elegance), trim, nice, trig, line, finical, smart, jaunty, natty, foppish, dandyish.
v. n. Prink, dress finically.
v. a. Trim, deck, dress.
厄玛編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Neat, finical, trim, smug, tidy, smart, foppish, dandified, jaunty
ANT:Slovenly, untidy, untrim, disorderly
布伦达編輯
解釋/意思:
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.
戈登編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He lived in chambers in the Albany, did Fledgeby, and maintained a spruce appearance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The original chewing gum was spruce gum, the exudation of the cut branches of the spruce or fir tree. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- At 33 feet the ball passes through 10? inches of spruce, at 490 through 5 inches, and its extreme range is 3,000 feet, or more than half a mile. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The district selected for lighting was the area--nearly a square mile in extent--included between Wall, Nassau, Spruce, and Ferry Streets, Peck Slip and the East River in New York City. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The larger ropes used by them, two inches in diameter, were made from the fibrous roots of the spruce. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They arrived, the carriage turned, the step was let down, and Mr. Elton, spruce, black, and smiling, was with them instantly. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
巴拉克編輯