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/fruhm, from; unstressed fruhm/US // frʌm, frɒm; unstressed frəm //UK // (frɒm, unstressed frəm) //

从,来自,来自于,自

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Definitions

prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : : a train running west from Chicago.
    • : : The number of stores will be increased from 25 to 30.
    • : : two miles from shore; 30 minutes from now; from one page to the next.
    • : : to be excluded from membership; to differ from one's father.
    • : : to come from the Midwest; to take a pencil from one's pocket.
    • : : death from starvation.
    • : : From the evidence, he must be guilty.

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Examples

  • The bulk of the premiere actually put an unexpected spin on the ripped-from-the-headlines story.

  • But its title is a misnomer: The far-from-renegade Gay is a very good feminist.

  • Says my wife, returning from the shower be-robed, towel-turbaned, and still smelling faintly of not-made-from-concentrate.

  • But a new crop of famous-from-birth models are trying to make it on their own…and they deserve to be taken seriously.

  • Michael Jackson's back-from-the-dead moonwalk stunned viewers at the Billboard Awards.

  • They have a nodding-from-a-motor-acquaintance with it but I like a real handshake-friendship with it.

  • Once more we found ourselves in the far-from-delectable town of Cape François.

  • It was no good trying some tricky approach; his best bet was the straight-from-the-shoulder bit.

  • Now the fugitive-from-labor clause must be interpreted in part by the light of the Purpose of the Constitution.

  • And again came that scent of cigar smoke-from the old saturated leather.