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chap

/chap/US // tʃæp //UK // (tʃæp) //

皲裂,坼裂,坼缝,坼

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v.有主动词 verb
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    chapped, chap·ping.

    • : to crack, roughen, and redden: The windy, cold weather chapped her lips.
    • : to cause to split, crack, or open in clefts: The summer heat and drought chapped the riverbank.
v.无主动词 verb
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    chapped, chap·ping.

    • : to become chapped.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a fissure or crack, especially in the skin.
    • : Scot. a knock; rap.

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Examples

  • Worry not—whether your first attempt is a notebook cover or some fringey pair of chaps, we’ve collected all the basics you’ll need to know.

  • Sure, you may call this petty, but it really does chap my hide!

  • Little wiry chap, with silvery hair, bright brown eyes and plenty of wrinkles.

  • He survived a penniless childhood and a brutal war and emerged by all accounts an admirable chap.

  • Then, handing me back my iPad, he said nonchalantly in a really good mock-English accent, “Sorry, chap, my dance card is full.”

  • Just minutes earler, a chap wearing a Prince William mask tried to gain entry to the hospital via the main entrance.

  • Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

  • And since he was a very fast runner—for short distances—he met Grandfather Mole just as the old chap was crawling up the bank.

  • A groom is a chap, that a gentleman keeps to clean his 'osses, and be blown up, when things go wrong.

  • But he watched Grandfather Mole narrowly, with a grin on his face, to see what the old chap would do.

  • The strenuous efforts made by the Spaniards to secure their release are fully referred to in Chap.