Trim
[trɪm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) cutting down to the desired size or shape.
(noun.) attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation.
(noun.) a state of arrangement or appearance; 'in good trim'.
(verb.) adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used.
(verb.) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods.
(verb.) decorate, as with ornaments; 'trim the christmas tree'; 'trim a shop window'.
(verb.) be in equilibrium during a flight; 'The airplane trimmed'.
(verb.) balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; 'trim an airplane'.
編輯:厄休拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
(v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat.
(v. t.) To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree.
(v. t.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.
(v. t.) To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.
(v. t.) To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.
(v. t.) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
(v. i.) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.
(n.) Dress; gear; ornaments.
(n.) Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim.
(n.) The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.
(n.) The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.
(v. t.) Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Snug, neat, nice, compact, well adjusted, well ordered.[2]. Spruce, finical, smart.
n. [1]. Dress, gear, ornaments, trimmings, trappings.[2]. State, condition, order.
v. a. [1]. Adjust, arrange, put in order, set right, make trim.[2]. Dress, decorate, ornament, embellish, adorn, garnish, deck, bedeck, set out, array, set off, trick out.[3]. Clip, lop, shear, prune, curtail.
v. n. Fluctuate, vacillate, balance, be on the fence, veer round, change sides, be a time-server.
編輯:维姬
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Prepare, order, deck, adjust, clip, embellish, arrange
ANT:Disorder, derange, dismantle, denude, divest, disarrange
編輯:鲁弗斯
解釋/意思:
adj. in good order: nice.—v.t. to make trim: to put in due order: to dress: to decorate: to clip: to reduce to proper form: to arrange for sailing: to rebuke sharply to thrash.—v.i. to balance or fluctuate between parties:—pr.p. trim′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. trimmed.—n. dress: ornaments: state of a ship as to sailing qualities: arrangement.—adv. Trim′ly.—ns. Trim′mer one who trims: one who fluctuates between parties a time-server: a scold: a small horizontal beam on a floor into which the ends of joists are framed: a float bearing a baited hook and line used in fishing for pike; Trim′ming that which trims: ornamental parts esp. of a garment dish &c.: (pl.) fittings.—adv. Trim′mingly.—n. Trim′ness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I'm awfully lopsided, you know, and stowed down in my pocket it'll trim the ship. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Others, less injured and still in fighting trim, were making for the beaches close beneath him that would bring them under the protection of his army. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So trim her waist, her cap, her dress--I wondered how they had all been manufactured. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- As a peasant girl, she would go ever trim and cleanly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- What a figure, so trim and natty! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Everything was in its place and order as he had always kept it, the little fire was newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He trimmed the lamp, arranged his table, and said, Now, I am ready to begin. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- However, old frocks were trimmed, and new bonnets made, and the young ladies looked as well as could possibly have been expected of them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Holmes walked slowly up and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the outsides of the windows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with: I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I've worked sometimes whole afternoons, trimming her caps, and getting her ready to go to a party. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I wish these fine folk would stay at home till they're asked; and I want to finish trimming my hat (bonnet she meant). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You wore a costume of dove-colored silk with ostrich-feather trimming. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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