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dress up

/dres-uhp/US // ˈdrɛsˌʌp //

打扮,妆扮,装扮,妆饰

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal.Usually dress-ups. a person's best clothes: Wear your dress-ups for the reception.accessories or other added features: a car with custom dress-ups.

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Examples

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  • We won't find out this season, though it comes up occasionally.

  • Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.

  • The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.

  • And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.

  • Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.

  • In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.