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fringe

/frinj/US // frɪndʒ //UK // (frɪndʒ) //

边缘地带,边缘人,边缘化,边缘

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n.名词 noun
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    • : a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
    • : anything resembling or suggesting this: a fringe of grass around a swimming pool.
    • : an outer edge; margin; periphery: on the fringe of the art world.
    • : something regarded as peripheral, marginal, secondary, or extreme in relation to something else: the lunatic fringe of a strong political party.
    • : Optics. one of the alternate light and dark bands produced by diffraction or interference.
    • : fringe benefit.
v.有主动词 verb
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    fringed, fring·ing.

    • : to furnish with or as if with a fringe.
    • : to serve as a fringe for, or to be arranged around or along so as to suggest a fringe: armed guards fringing the building.

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Examples

  • In the outer fringes of the solar system, objects were so cold and slow-moving, apparently, that they could simply touch and stick together.

  • Before the pandemic, Frailey knew a little bit about QAnon, but he hadn’t given such an easily debunked fringe theory much of his time.

  • If successful, they might not be on the fringes of American politics for much longer.

  • Altogether, I’ve spent the fringes of three winters there — in 1991, 1995 to 1996, and 2007 to 2008.

  • Most of the deaths have occurred near the village of Seronga on the northern fringes of the Okavango Delta, a vast swampy inland region that hosts huge wildlife populations.

  • The Five Percent Nation of Islam was there as well as fringe Stalinist groups.

  • GALLERY: 'JUSTICE FOR ALL' MARCH IN WASHINGTON DC There were plenty of representatives of the fringe too.

  • Indeed, the chatter for the past year on the anti-gay fringe has been of resistance.

  • Indeed, Wolf's journey to the crackpot fringe was completed a long time ago.

  • Unlike Cosby, who had only a fringe of gray hair left, he still sported a silver mane.

  • These form one of the many island groups that hang like a fringe or festoon on the skirt of the continent of Asia.

  • The crowd disposed itself on the fringe of the sward, and the duellists went forward, and set about the preparations.

  • The walls were covered with silk and velvet hangings, ornamented with gold fringe, while rich carpets were spread underfoot.

  • The late Caleb Whitefoord, seeing a lady knotting fringe for a petticoat, asked her, what she was doing?

  • He was not a man to dodge trouble that might bring profit dangling to the fringe of her skirt.