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put on

/noun poot-on, -awn; adjective poot-on, -awn/US // noun ˈpʊtˌɒn, -ˌɔn; adjective ˈpʊtˈɒn, -ˈɔn //

穿上,穿上了,穿着,戴上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : an act or instance of putting someone on.
    • : a prank or pretense, especially one perpetrated or assumed in mock seriousness; hoax; spoof.
    • : affected manner or behavior; pretentiousness.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : assumed, feigned, pretended, or disguised: a put-on manner that didn't fool anyone.

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Examples

  • To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."

  • Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.

  • When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive.

  • He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

  • Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.

  • Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.