| 单词 | dress up |
| 释义 | dress updress up 1 phrasal verbphr v a) DCDLto wear special clothes for fun, or to put special clothes on someone 〔闹着玩地〕装扮 as He went to the party dressed up as a Chicago gangster. 他装扮成一个芝加哥匪徒去参加聚会。 in I keep a box of old clothes for the children to dress up in. 我保存着一箱旧衣服让孩子们装扮着玩。 dress somebody ↔ up We dressed him up as a gorilla. 我们把他装扮成大猩猩。 b) DCto wear clothes that are more formal than the ones you would usually wear 〔比平时〕穿得正式 It’s a small informal party – you don’t have to dress up. 这是个非正式的小型聚会——你不用穿得那么正式。 c) dress something ↔ upINTERESTING to make something more interesting or attractive 对…加以修饰，美化某物 It was the old offer dressed up as something new. 这还是原来的建议，改头换面像新的罢了。 Examples from the Corpus dress up• Most kids love dressing up.• One of the students dressed up as a rabbit and marched around campus carrying a sign.• I came in to find that my daughter had dressed herself up in my clothes.• They were dressed up in old sheets, pretending to be ghosts. dress in• People get dressed up in caps and gowns.• We thought anyone who dresses up in dresses we want to go and see.• At midday all the people from Amantani dress up in traditional costume and they go up to the two centres.• Now he's taken to dressing up in young people's clothes. → dress up at dress2(2) 2 → variant of dressing-up at dressing-up |
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