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shipshape

/ship-sheyp/US // ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp //UK // (ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp) //

船形,船型,船形图,船型图

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : in good order; well-arranged; trim or tidy.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a shipshape manner.

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Examples

  • They were the only detail on the entire vessel that didn’t feel perfectly shipshape and squared away.

  • She loved a tidy house full of bright, beautiful objects like Crown Derby china, with everything neat and shipshape.

  • But what I want to ask is that you and Martha Macauley will come over and see that the table looks shipshape.

  • In him no laxity inhered, no falling away from the strict tenets of shipshape neatness.

  • He had taught him to keep his little room—his little first mates cabin, as he had always called it—very shipshape.

  • The cargo's out, Scraggsy, my son, the decks has been washed down an' everything in my department is shipshape.

  • By Herculean efforts the four ladies and myself got the place shipshape, and all was finished when the daylight failed.