band-aid
创可贴,创口贴,胶布,带状物
Definitions
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Trademark.
- : a brand of adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, used to cover minor abrasions and cuts.
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- : Informal. a makeshift, limited, or temporary aid or solution that does not satisfy the basic or long-range need: The proposed reform isn't thorough enough to be more than just a band-aid.
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- : Informal. serving as a makeshift, limited, or temporary aid or solution: band-aid measures to solve a complex problem.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Conditions will never be perfect, and we have reached the point of ripping off the proverbial Band-Aid.
He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
The band turned back around, raising a lively tune to signal life would go on.
The band was still on its way back as De Blasio and his wife departed.
The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.
Every other band I had been in had been pretty loud, you could never hear the vocals.
Groping to the chimney-place with the aid of his matches, Mr. Collingwood found the candle and lit it.
His little band was almost immediately surrounded by the enemy.
Conny stepped smilingly forward, and proceeded to affix the band around the vicar's massive throat.
England gladly seized the opportunity of injuring her enemy and sent aid to the people of Spain.
But once Austria was disposed of, Prussia and Russia met their punishment for having given her secret or open aid.