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nounPlural caps kapkæp 1A kind of soft, flat hat without a brim and typically with a peak. （尤指有帽舌的）无檐软平帽 a man wearing a raincoat and a flat cap figurative her cap of dark hair Example sentencesExamples - I get back to Lancashire quite a bit - my family's still there - and I don't think I've seen anybody in a flat cap up there since about 1975.
- Very few of them, no matter how poor, are bareheaded: the men wear flat caps, bowlers, straw boaters, trilbies, toppers, the women shawls or floral hats.
- For the cricket lover, there is no sight to compare with that of two middle-aged men, wearing lab coats and flat caps, coming down the pavilion steps with measured tread.
- Virtually all the working men wear flat caps, while the managerial staff wear bowlers.
- I stood there alone and watched as four men entered dressed in donkey jackets and flat caps.
- Rochdale bobbies on the beat switched to flat caps four years ago but continued to wear helmets at ceremonies.
- He even turns a flat cap and Barbour into something of a fashion statement, the kind of thing that could well catch on in Shoreditch or Manchester.
- Women's bright caps were worn flat on the head and had flaps on either side.
- This simple item could be opened and worn on the head, creating a three-dimensional cap out of flat strips alternating with empty spaces.
- The ‘Venus of Willendorf’, for example, has a mere knob of a head, her face obscured by what has been interpreted as a cap of curls.
- Disillusioned dairy farmers in Yorkshire could soon be turning cowboys and switching their flat caps for Stetsons if they take up an offer to relocate to South Dakota.
- Mr Binns said the style of dress worn by those photographed, particularly the flat caps and bow ties, would be in keeping with the late Victorian era when Whitby was well established as a resort.
- The technique was commonly used for different kinds of headgear, such as caps, hoods, bonnets, hairnets and snoods, as well as for stockings, mittens, collars and sashes.
- The flat cap was a feature of British life through most of he last century.
- Outside the grand clubhouse at the Legends course, at the heart of Château Elan, you almost expect chaps to be wandering around in plus-fours and flat caps.
- Most men covered their heads with flat wool caps or skullcaps or turbans in a variety of sizes and colours.
- He wore a flat cap, old woolen trousers, and a brown shirt that was several sizes too large for him.
- He is the old bloke with the flat cap and the transistor radio, isn't he?
- The man was quite tall and he and the woman were both wearing jeans, wellington boots and flat caps.
- 1.1with adjective or noun modifier A kind of soft, close-fitting head covering worn for a particular purpose.
软帽 一个淋浴浴帽。 一个游泳帽。 Example sentencesExamples - Men often wear a long white robe called a jallabiyah, with either a small cap or a turban as a head covering.
- Cover head in plastic cap or plastic wrap and cover with a warm towel.
- They rode sturdy Mongolian ponies, wore distinctive fur caps, and carried sabers, pistols, and rifles.
- In the hallway outside, I was handed a mask and cap.
- And if I have to sit wearing a swimming cap covered in electrodes to show willing, OK, so I will.
- There is a nudist part of the beach at Playa de Inglis and what amused us as we walked along there was to see elderly ladies bathing in the sea in the nude yet still wearing caps or other headgear to protect their coiffures.
- Keep long hair pulled back or placed in a cap for added protection.
- Johnny is going to have to do a hell of a lot more than put on a ski cap in order to get you off, you know!
- If you can get your hands on a vintage hair dryer - the kind you find in thrift stores that look like a shower cap stuffed into a round suitcase, you won't regret it.
- More Americans were showing up every minute, bearing flags and ball caps and yellow bracelets, ready to howl and shout and taste history.
- So I would sweat like crazy in a yellow rubber swim cap while Lee Ann Billings and Jamie Reader dipped their blonde hair in and out of the cool, chlorine tainted water.
- Then, in the 1950s, a traveller notices bay cat fur on two ceremonial caps being worn by Dayak tribespeople.
- Those early wheelmen didn't have bicycle helmets, but they did wear close-fitting long-visored caps.
- Protheroe, in padded dressing gown and tasseled cap, laughed and rose to greet his friend.
- Opened in November 2001, it's run by two brothers with similar close-cut reddish beards, ethnic clothes and close-fitting caps.
- The main beach, on the other hand, is a huge sweep of golden sand that attract hundreds of day trippers and is patrolled by lifesavers in distinctive red and yellow caps.
- The clothing line will include running and cycling shorts, shimmels, caps and swimsuits in technical fabrics that breathe and wick away moisture.
- If you think you can pull off any look, then I suggest you try on this chalk-stripe driving cap.
- Each year they moved to the next level getting different colour ribbons and swimming caps.
- I hugged both of my parents before securing my black back over my shoulder, pulling my newsboy cap lower over my face and hurrying to my gate.
- 1.2British A cap awarded as a sign of membership of a particular sports team, especially a national team.
〈主英〉（作为入选某一足球、橄榄球或板球队，尤指参加国际比赛的国家队标志的）队员帽 he has won three caps for Scotland 他三次入选苏格兰队。 Example sentencesExamples - He won 76 caps and scored 30 goals, despite the disruption caused to the game by the 2nd world war.
- The Cameroon midfielder, who joins international teammate Lucien Mettomo at Maine Road, has had an eventful career since winning his first cap at 17.
- Easily the most experienced of England's current players, the Yorkshire-born Seaman is 38 years old and was winning his 73rd cap yesterday.
- Of the nine keepers to have had more than 20 national caps, four are known by their surnames and four by their first names.
- He won 55 caps and scored 30 goals (a national record he shares with Kenny Dalglish).
- Head coach Gavin Walsh is a New Zealander who won an A team cap for Ireland, and now works for a stonemason in Glasgow.
- The former AC Milan star was a fixture on the Italian national team for nearly a decade, earning 64 caps and appearing in two World Cups.
- There is plenty of experience, too - most of the team have over 50 caps.
- In her career, Atkins won 249 caps for England and represented Great Britain in three Olympic Games, winning a European gold medal and an Olympic bronze at Barcelona.
- Hughes earned 62 caps for the national team and led Liverpool to a string of honours while at the Anfield club.
- Though not possessing as many national caps as their rivals, the Havies boast quite a bit of talent.
- Ian Botham won 103 Test caps for England, taking 383 wickets and scoring 5,200 runs with an average of 33.54.
- Former England coach Hoddle brought Le Tissier into the national side to win his eighth cap at home to Italy for a World Cup qualifier in February 1997 but he has never been picked since.
- Although his career has been interrupted by various injuries he won five international caps and is an Australian tourist.
- The 6ft 6in lineout specialist, who won two caps in New Zealand last summer, had been under pressure to stay in Scotland.
- A former Leeds Met student, Mr McGeechan won 32 caps for Scotland before coaching the national team and the British Lions.
- He won his cap for the Portuguese national side at an early age.
- Baggio completed a full 90 minutes and showed flashes of the ability that won him 60 caps for the Italian national side.
- Bobic, who has 19 German caps, has signed a loan deal from Borussia Dortmund until the end of the season with a view to its becoming permanent.
- Since bursting on to the scene with Ajax, Davids has played in four Champions League finals, winning with the Dutch team in 1995, and has won 73 caps for his country.
- 1.3British A player to whom a cap is awarded.
被授予选手帽的运动员 a former naval officer and rugby cap 一位前海军军官和橄榄球运动员。 Example sentencesExamples - Given that both these sides carry a full complement of potential Scottish caps this can't have been the most pleasant 90 minutes viewing for Vogts.
- Ben Addison, a Scotland under-21 cap last season, saw his powerful running and good angles earning him three tries.
- The current crop is short on caps and confidence, with many areas of weakness for the Irish to exploit.
- It gives them a motivation to become a national cap and an international Test cricketer.
- The other Watsonians back to impress was full back Nash, a Scotland under-19 cap last season and a player with impressive speed.
- He and his dad Terry will be paired up as change bowlers, with the attack expected to be opened by two new caps, Paul Hart of Spring View and Steve Holt of Clifton.
- Both new caps fullback Peter Gibson and lock Paul Barker admitted to being a little nervous before flying out with the team yesterday afternoon.
- Dominic Matteo and Neil McCann are also established caps who have been short of chances to impress Vogts.
- 1.4 An academic mortar board.
学位帽 school-leavers in cap and gown 头戴学位帽、身着毕业礼服的毕业生。 Example sentencesExamples - Your proud high school graduate has gone from caps and gowns to the fast-paced, challenging world of summer jobs.
- Josephine English didn't rent a cap and gown when she heard she had graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from a Dublin college.
- Whether you're one of the lucky grads yourself, or some of your friends are throwing their grad caps in the air, grad season is upon us.
- The graduates look very scholarly in their caps and gowns.
- A handful of teachers and several dozen graduating seniors, still in their caps and gowns from the formal graduation earlier in the day, attended the event.
- The International School of Port-of-Spain 2005 graduates happily throw their caps in the air at the end of the commencement programme.
- The same percentage of MIT engineering graduates in their caps and gowns could not light a bulb with a battery and one wire.
- But in field after field, paper journals are becoming like academic caps and gowns, a purely ceremonial relict of an obsolete culture.
- She brought with her the mortarboard cap that she had worn at her graduation.
- The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century.
- Success in that final exam ensures that their parents' dream, which by now should also be their own, of a cap and gown clad university graduate is within grasp.
- The graduates were well attired for the occasion, with coloured convocation robes, inner suit and the flat cap completing the ensemble.
Synonyms mortar board, academic cap dated trencher, trencher cap, square - 1.5 The top of a bird's head when distinctively coloured.
彩色鸟顶冠 Example sentencesExamples - With their white cheeks and dark caps and throats, Chestnut-backed Chickadees look much like Black-capped Chickadees.
- Males and females look the same, with white chins extending up just below the eyes and gray-brown caps.
- Light morphs have brown upperparts with a blackish cap and white collar, white underparts, and yellowish sides of the neck.
- Their heads are also relatively smaller and their gray caps less distinct than the Cooper's.
- It is heavily barred brown-and-white above and below, with a white eye-line that separates a rufous cap and cheek.
- As he angled, we admired his teal plumage, chestnut neck, pine green cap, and white ventral stripe.
- Although drab in winter, males spend much of the year resplendent in bright lemon-yellow plumage set off by black and white wings, cap, and tail.
- The adult in non-breeding plumage is similar, but with a white forehead that darkens to streaky black, as if the cap has receded.
- The crane has light to dark blue-gray plumage and a crimson cap at the back of its crown.
- Females have gray caps and a slightly lighter rufous color on the undersides.
- The juvenile appears similar to the adult in breeding plumage, but lacks the reddish-brown cap and dark belly.
2A protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens. （瓶子、笔尖或照相机镜头的）帽，盖 a glass bottle with a screw cap Example sentencesExamples - This includes bottle caps, tin covers or aluminum foil - these are some of the items service technicians commonly find in clogged or broken disposals.
- A museum in its Shunde headquarters displays a few plastic bottle caps along with a small, rusting electric fan that looks like a relic from the bottom of the sea.
- Here consumers take caps off the plastic bottles, dump any liquid from the bottles into a bucket, and bag the bottles.
- In the rush of setting everything up for a shot you would be surprised at the number of people who set the camera recording with the lens cap still on.
- Instead of tiles or concrete the shop's floors were covered with dirt and bottle caps.
- The ingredients were on the bottle cap, which everyone tossed away.
- Someone cleared their throat, and Artemesia straightened up, snapping the lens cap onto the camera.
- I couldn't unscrew the cap of those little bottles with one thumb if my life depended upon it.
- Nic and I were only trying to use our side of the doorknob to get the caps off two bottles of Heineken.
- Childproof caps on medicine bottles are a safety feature but they require some thought by adults in order to use them properly.
- I opened my notebook and picked up my favourite black pen, and tapped the cap against my teeth, thinking about what I wanted to write.
- Very, very carefully pour a tiny bit of vermouth into the cap of the vermouth bottle.
- Removing the cap to the acid bottle, she gingerly covered it with eight layers of carefully folded foil, sticking the foil down with a piece of duct tape.
- I leave so the staff can have their turn: theirs are the empty plastic milk sachets, torn bits of paper from the waste-basket, cardboard boxes, bottle caps.
- Garbage had to be sorted out - plastic bags, lids, bottle caps, etc.
- The plastic cap fits on the bottle and locks when a small ‘key’ is pulled from it.
- I mean, if my cat can be happy batting around a bottle cap, surely I can find something to be happy about too.
- Plastic jugs and bottles can be placed in the bins marked for glass, and for both plastic and glass, it is good to rinse out the bottles and remove the caps.
- She pointedly puts the cap on her camera lens and walks with him.
- First they collected bottle caps, beer mats and can rings.
Synonyms lid, top, stopper, cork, bung, spile ferrule cover, covering North American stopple - 2.1 An artificial protective covering for a tooth.
〔牙科〕人造牙冠 Example sentencesExamples - Her whole jaw was bruised, her cap for her tooth cost £404.
- Then, Bodine suffered a concussion and a broken collarbone and needed eight caps for his teeth because of a practice crash at Michigan.
- While your dentist might still recommend an apple a day and be able to fit natural-looking caps, the latest orthodontic innovations concentrate on stopping decay before it has a chance to do any damage.
3An upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing. 花费（或借款的）上限 he raised the cap on local authority spending 他提高了地方当局的经费上限。 Example sentencesExamples - In the hope of ending speculation about the rising cost of the project Magahy proposed in May 2001 that a cap be imposed.
- To some extent, they conceded, both standards would impose a cap or ceiling of some sort.
- Even putting a cap on the price spent on it makes more sense.
- The bonus money received from the performance pool would not count against teams' salary caps.
- While not the same as rigid price caps, bid caps place limits on the prices that energy suppliers can offer to municipalities and companies.
- He has just called for a constitutional cap on state spending and made clear his distaste for new taxes.
- He promises to impose spending caps and offset spending increases with mandatory spending cuts or tax increases.
- Failing to negotiate a cap on investors' legal fees could leave you with a huge bill.
- This time around, spending caps may not be enough.
- The best solution I can think of is the wage cap which operates in Rugby League.
- He was omitted because of the cap on team strengths in the competition, but will ride tomorrow in what looks a lost cause against the champions.
- Daly is also pushing for the Shannon board's borrowing cap to be raised from €20 million to €100 million in the legislation.
- To achieve this, the survey promised to raise caps on foreign direct investment and open up more sectors to global capital.
- Congress can show a commitment to this by raising or eliminating the cap on wages taxed for Social Security.
- Disney agreed to raise the caps on pension benefits and put a limit on yearly hikes in health benefits that are deducted on a weekly basis from paychecks.
- With a cap on spending during elections, ministers are using the extra perks to beef up their campaign without declaring them as expenses.
- He was complaining about the absence of a cap in campaign spending before the formal election period, even though it was his party that exploited this loophole prior to the last election.
- Tendring's share of this year's council tax bill has been set at a level which could lead to a Government cap on spending
- It also raised the cap on foreign direct investment in private banks to 74 per cent from 49 per cent.
- The package here offers students no up-front fees, loan forgiveness at 25 years, no real rate of interest, a generous grant and bursary system and a cap on the fee itself.
Synonyms limit, upper limit, ceiling curb, check 4British informal A contraceptive diaphragm. 〈英，非正式〉（避孕用的）子宫帽 Example sentencesExamples - Barrier methods of contraception include diaphragms, condoms and cervical caps.
- In the first instance the cap or diaphragm needs to be fitted by a doctor or family planning nurse, to make sure it's the right size and is positioned correctly.
- The cap or diaphragm had been developed in the 1880's but its availability had been very much limited as people were kept in the dark as to its very existence.
- Diaphragms and caps are barrier methods of contraception.
- Find out from this factsheet by the fpa how contraceptive diaphragms and caps work, how effective they are at preventing pregnancy and their advantages and disadvantages.
- Some couples find a diaphragm or cap to be an intrusive method of contraception, because fitting them can interrupt sex if you haven't inserted it beforehand.
- Clean diaphragms and the caps of spermicide applicators after each use.
- There are also three types of cap: vault, cervical and vimule, although new varieties such as a silicone cap are becoming available.
- HIV positive women can use diaphragms and cervical caps for birth control, with spermicidal cream or jelly.
- IUDs, diaphragms, and cervical caps are just plain disgusting.
- Because of cervical abnormalities, diaphragms and cervical caps may be difficult to fit.
- The cervical cap is not recommended for use in parous women.
5The broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores. （蘑菇或伞菌的）菌盖 Example sentencesExamples - If possible, please show the gills beneath the cap.
- In the autumn, they came and gathered mushrooms from the few tree stumps she'd deigned to leave in her garden, mushrooms with caps of white, yellow, brown and even blue.
- Spoon into pepper and tomato halves and over mushroom caps.
- When you're buying loose mushrooms, choose those with smooth, unblemished caps, firm gills, and a clean aroma.
- The cap & stem that we commonly eat is just the fruiting body.
- Coral mushrooms do not have caps but instead have a fruiting body of branched clusters.
- M. rachodes has white spores and white gills on specimens of all ages, and the stern stains orange to red when cut near the junction with the cap.
- A bird hippocampus sits on top of the brain, rather like a mushroom cap.
- Enoki mushrooms are pale and fragile, with slender stems and tiny caps.
- The C. deceptive should have pale pinkish spore print, adnate to decurrent gills about the same colour of the cap, which should be pale brown or greyish with incurved margins.
- The surface of the cap of each fungiform structure is either tangential, or slightly inclined, to the surface of the carapace.
- Larger mushroom caps of course are better and you can be creative with your stuffing choices.
- Count the gills under the cap - or in the case of a boletus, the holes.
- And at the base of the cerebrum, emerging like the stalk from a mushroom cap, is an elongated structure, the brain stem.
- The mature cap is metallic green in color, but it varies from light yellow to greenish-brown.
- Although the colour of the cap is quite variable, the blackening should serve to distinguish it from other similar looking fungi.
- Five tall, slender mushrooms with yellow stems and glowing orange caps reach through the decaying foliage toward the sky as ants burrow underground.
6 short for percussion cap Example sentencesExamples - We started selling snap caps a little over a year ago.
- So, before you buy that cap gun or bouncing ball for your child, take some precautions.
- Like many boys he had been fascinated with guns when a young child and had the usual cap guns and nerd guns.
verbcaps, capped, capping kapkæp [with object]1Put a lid or cover on. 给…加盖（或帽） 他将钢笔套上笔帽。 Example sentencesExamples - He thanked me absently, capped his pen, and we all walked out into the quiet night, substantially calmer than last week.
- When I capped the pen and folded the paper R. asked with surprise, ‘You're done?’
- For maximum battery life, it's suggested the gun be worn concealed, and the sight be capped with the provided cover when not in use.
- Gabrielle carefully closed The Anthem, stood up as the bell rang, capped her pen and stuck it into her jean pocket.
- The bottles are then capped and placed in the cool cellars of the winery for up to 2 years.
- The men placed toilet bowl cleanser and aluminum foil in a plastic bottle and then capped the bottle before leaving the Lakeland restaurant.
- I capped the pen and put it down, considering whether or not I should just rip up this poem and forget I ever wrote it.
- He said that there have been discussions to change the technology of capping the wine bottles but so far the cork has remained.
- Fill the bottle halfway with warm water, cap it and shake to mix.
- Merlin capped his pen and set his journal on the office desk in front of him.
- After capping it, the bottle should be shaken for 20 seconds.
- Cameron closed her Bible, shut the notebook, capped the pen, and then put everything away before leaving to go downstairs with me.
- She sighed and capped her pen, setting it on top of her notepad.
- Philip poured the liquid from the cup into a bottle, capping it afterwards.
- Evander took another drink of water and capped the bottle.
- Bottles are capped with an aluminum foil seal, which is sent through a chute that catches the lip of the bottle.
- Each bottle was then capped and ready for display.
- 1.1 Form a covering layer or topmost part of.
覆盖，笼罩 山顶积雪的群山。 Example sentencesExamples - Reclamation dredging is nearing completion and all reclaimed land will then be capped with a layer of rock, imported from a nearby quarry.
- It was a massive eight-sided chamber capped with a dome.
- They found the rare element iridium in the thin clay layer that caps the rocks of the Cretaceous era.
- Designed by French architect Roger Taillibert, the stadium was one of the first sports stadiums in the world to be capped with a plastic dome roof.
- The radiocarbon-dated feature that produced the wild rice was located at the bottom of an undisturbed Late Woodland midden that had been capped with a layer of sterile sand.
- She was a beautiful lilac colour and her tail was luxurious, although not so luxurious as my own, and her long face was capped with two perfectly shaped ears.
- A new jumbo monopitch supported by heavy steel trusses caps the building and introduces light through clerestory glazing.
- Mt Fuji has been on show for a month or so now, pollution notwithstanding, and so on the windy days it is standing proud and erect in the distance, capped with the usual white dome of snow.
- The Lawrence County Courthouse, composed of stone and brick, has three stories surmounted by a massive tower in two stages capped by a segmental dome and cupola.
- Pod and dome are linked to a glazed reception pavilion capped by an oversailing fabric roof.
- The plateau surface is mostly capped with resistant sandstone over less resistant shale and limestone layers intermixed with some sandstone layers.
- Almost perfectly intact, it was a circle of pillars capped with an ornate dome.
- There would be a layer of soil that was capped with a layer of stones that was capped with a layer of soil and so on.
- The Earth has an iron core surrounded by a dense layer called the mantle, which is capped with a thin rind of rocky crust.
- The one-story library headquarters platform caps the building.
- The controversial hole in the ground will be capped with a layer of clay when planning permission runs out in December and landfill operators begin what they call ‘restoration’ of the site.
- The entire intricate construction covered more than one hectare of land, and the towers soared some 30 meters high, jauntily capped by Catalan flags and banners.
- As a temporary repair measure, English Heritage had the crater in the centre of the hill packed with polystyrene and capped with a layer of chalk.
- Designed by Simpson & Ayrton, and built of reinforced concrete by Owen Williams, it was memorable for its twin towers, capped with exotic, New Delhi-like domes.
- They built it not long ago, big and ugly, with a massive sloped roof rising up to the top of the bell tower, which is capped with a fat building-block cross.
Synonyms top, crown cover, coat, blanket, mantle - 1.2 Put an artificial protective covering on (a tooth)
〔牙科〕人造牙冠 his smile revealed perfectly capped teeth Example sentencesExamples - Four root treatments had been carried out and a damaged tooth had been capped.
- He greeted his opponent's return to action with a snapping inside out kick on the end of a timely upward leap, thus snapping Johnson's head to one side and at last drawing blood from the pierced cavity of a crooked gold capped tooth.
- It's in a tooth that's capped and had a recent root canal filling.
- He showed his cupped hands to Bligh and they were full of engraved tinder boxes, rings, broken teeth capped with gold.
- He was short and fat and had next to no hair, several of his teeth were capped with gold.
- He's paid out good money to have his teeth capped and cauliflower ear sorted.
- The scenes that are presumably supposed to depict camaraderie are hilariously forced; three sets of perfectly capped teeth clenched into rictus grins of barely suppressed hatred.
- My teeth have been capped and bleached to sparkle with a false warmth when I contort my features into what you call a smile.
- Miss Meters smiled, flashing her chipped teeth, revealing that the two front ones had been capped with bronze.
- Take the dentist I went to when I needed to have my teeth capped a while ago.
- You finally settle on the pleasant face on the screen - the big hair, bright power suit, capped teeth and colorful talons - blandly reading the news.
- Typically it's over $100 for a checkup, $444 to get my bottom teeth capped, and having all four of my wisdom teeth taken out is going to cost around $2000.
- As I rider, well, let's just say, I'm glad most of my teeth are already capped.
- Behind the jowls the expertly capped teeth shimmer.
- If they've got bad teeth, you'll cap the teeth, if they need a makeover, you give them a makeover.
- All but her front incisors are capped with some very red gold, it's either very red gold or it looks coppery.
- Coals flashed Marcus a grin, so full of perfectly capped teeth, so taut at the lips, so fleshy at the gum line that for a split second the image of a shark in an expensive wool suit was unavoidable.
- In bearing the pain he ground his teeth so hard that 11 of them had to be capped or replaced after the race.
2Provide a fitting climax or conclusion to. 使达到高潮；结束 he capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions 他以成为冠军中的冠军的方式结束了这个难忘赛季。 Example sentencesExamples - Michigan finished 10-2 and capped its season with an overtime victory over Alabama in the Orange Bowl.
- Instead, his victory capped a memorable night for the Buck family.
- It caps his 38-year ascent from a lowly clerk to the second leader of the former British colony since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
- York got eight points to cap a fine qualifying season.
- Keane capped a memorable 2004 by being named the best breakthrough act, as well as best British album for the brilliant Hopes and Fears.
- It caps a disappointing 12 months for South Africa in which it also lost its grasp of second place in the ICC Test Championship.
- Andrew Johnson was named the Crystal Palace Player of the Year for the second successive season last weekend to cap off a memorable campaign.
- Record-breaking runner Paula Radcliffe has been awarded the prestigious Women of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award, capping a memorable weekend for her.
- The colt's success capped a memorable Epsom meeting which also saw Casual Look win the Oaks, giving trainer Andrew Balding a Classic success in his first season as a trainer.
- This development caps a highly successful period for the Royal Armouries in Leeds which has seen a 66 per cent increase in visitor numbers in six months.
- Yesterday's closing activities capped the end of a week-long, jammed-packed schedule of events.
- Staveley's Rob Jebb capped a magnificent season on the fells, fulfilling one of his dreams by winning Saturday's Ben Nevis race.
- The team capped a great season by finishing seventh in the tournament.
- York and District Indoor Bowls club capped a fine season as their men completed a hat-trick of victories in the county leagues, writes Ian Clough.
- Katie Heginbotham from Barrows Green triumphed at HOYS to cap a memorable season.
- Dan Potter will cap a wonderful personal month tomorrow when he is crowned the Knights' Player of the Month for August, as voted for by Evening Press readers.
- While Rovers sweeper Luke McAnelly capped a fine season by winning the man of the match award, coach Al Duroux refused to single out any star performers.
- It capped a memorable first season in charge for Wetheriggs manager Andrew Ridley, his assistant Bob Norman and coach Paul Renwick.
- The Kiwi-born pop star caps a roller coaster 12 months with her first UK tour, which started on Tuesday.
- The Reds, however, were not finished and they capped a memorable afternoon with a fifth try in the final minute when Darren Treacy forced his way over from close range.
Synonyms round off, crown, be a fitting climax to, put the finishing touch/touches to, perfect, complete - 2.1 Follow or reply to (a story, remark, or joke) by producing a better one.
胜过；超过；盖过（前面的故事、评论或笑话） he prayed no wit would cap his remark with some repartee 他祈祷没人能超过他略带诡辩的评论。 Example sentencesExamples - Cave's not a lunatic on a killing spree; he's a lovelorn bombmaker, and he caps this cinematic story of devotion with a spirited sing-along.
- Mac McMurray capped this story by saying a townsman had a piece of petrified fence post with the drilled holes for wire with a piece of the wire attached.
- This work was capped in 1939 with the publication of The Nature of the Chemical Bond, one of the most-cited texts in the history of science.
- I can't say how many on-line discussions have been capped by a quotation from Rand's writing as if his having said something settled everything.
- It's effectively capped by Coral's response ‘Which one is cheaper?’
- He caps it all off with the snide dismissal ‘it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.’
- I would guess that volumes of his poetry are as frequently met with as Buildings of England, and a favourite party game between complete strangers is to cap a quote or say which of his poems you admire most.
- Ruth would have felt the need to cap the comment in some way, or qualify it, or even dismiss it out of hand as arrant nonsense.
Synonyms beat, better, surpass, outdo, outshine, trump, top, upstage improve on, go one better than informal best
3Place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or borrowing) 限制，约束（价格、开销或借款） council budgets will be capped 委员会的预算将受到限制。 Example sentencesExamples - One solution might be to cap claimants' costs at, say, 10% of the compensation recovered unless a good reason was shown for a higher amount.
- The aim is to cap prices on basic commodities such as eggs, vegetables, fruit, rice, canned foods, chicken and other meat products.
- One of the most controversial recommendations of the report calls for the government to endorse a package of measures to fundamentally reform the property market by capping the price of development land.
- It also makes sense to cap the limit for exempting the inheritance tax at $5 million.
- My experience from my other businesses is that you have to cap the price at the level where your competitors are.
- The legislation, however, does not place a flat cap on the value of the homestead exemption that an individual can exempt in bankruptcy.
- The potential damage is compounded by new proposals to cap tuition increases, at the very moment that both state support and endowments are plummeting.
- In July, the Competition Commissioner told mobile operators they were charging too much for connecting calls from other networks and recommended that prices be capped.
- Earlier this year BT announced that it was capping the cost of phone calls for businesses as part of a move to overhaul call tariffs.
- The Kyoto Protocol caps global emissions, but with two huge exceptions.
- He said he hoped the government's measure to cap fuel prices should not last too long because it could have repercussions in the long run.
- The amount that members can claim is not capped, although a cap is to be introduced eventually as part of an ongoing review by the compensation committee.
- What Mrs. Alexander is really saying is that trial attorneys won't make as much money if punitive damages are capped.
- Those who make a voluntary disclosure to the Revenue before November 15 will have their privacy protected and interest and penalties will be capped at twice the amount of the tax owed.
- There was controversy at the time when the Minister, Michael Lowry, announced he was capping the licence fee at £15 million when commentators estimated it was worth up to £110 million.
- The public system caps spending at $45 million for the primary.
- They will not be given a free hand to expend their facilities for treating fee paying patients: the percentage of income derived from this source is to be capped.
- Mr Lowry said at the time that Commission objections led him to extend the tender time fee and to cap the fee.
- China agreed in June to cap its future spending on farm subsidies at 8.5 per cent of the value of domestic farm production.
- If it caps the price of wonder drugs, pharmaceutical companies will fight it.
Synonyms set a limit on, put a ceiling on, limit, restrict, keep within bounds curb, control, peg 4be cappedBritish Be chosen as a member of a particular sports team, especially a national one. 〈主英〉被选为足球（或橄榄球、板球）队员（尤指参加国际比赛的国家队队员） he was capped ten times by England 他十次入选英格兰国家队。 Example sentencesExamples - Since being plucked from local football on his native Merseyside, Townson has made remarkable strides in the past 12 months and has been capped by England at under-17 level.
- The international defender, who has played in two World Cup finals and been capped 41 times, comes with plenty of baggage.
- He has done everything he wanted to do - of course, he was capped by England at Rugby Union when he went back to that game.
- ‘The late, great Joe Baker was capped by England as a nineteen-year-old playing for Hibernian in 1960,’ says Ronnie Pont.
- The 29-year-old, who will be out of contract at Ewood Park at the end of the season, has been capped more than 20 times by Northern Ireland.
- Both teams will showcase players who are knocking at the door to Test honours or those who have been capped but are on the fringes of their respective Test teams.
- ‘Being capped was a pleasant surprise,’ said the Aussie.
- The trip to the Far East will be a new experience for the Bromborough lad, who won the MacGregor Trophy last year and was capped against Italy and Scotland.
- He was capped after just 12 league games for Arsenal and scored a century on his Test debut.
- Meanwhile, SA A will be captained by Lions and Cats flanker Wikus van Heerden and includes 14 players who have been capped for the Springboks.
- The Scotland full-back was capped 57 times during two decades with Celtic.
- He was capped 44 times and captained Scotland when they beat England at Wembley.
- In the middle of last season he was capped twice by England Under-16s, making his debut in a 2-0 win over Turkey.
- He was capped 67 times by his country and if he signs will become Keegan's eighth new face at the club since he took over the reins.
- Juan Veron has been capped 36 times by his country, scoring six goals in the process.
- ‘Not all those who qualified for the honours will be capped and we beg them not to be frustrated as this process will be an annual event from this year,’ he said.
- He was also noticed because he had been capped by England - though that is another story - but, at 21, he was a reluctant conscript.
- Do we really have the heart to deprive him of the pride he takes in representing his country so that a supposedly better player who has failed to be capped elsewhere can take his place?
- He said the idea of the trials was to give chance to players who were not capped at Under-17 or Under-20 levels.
- The man who was extraordinarily never capped by England despite being one of the best central defenders in the country for many years, has built a strong squad at St Andrews which is brimming with quality and top level experience.
Synonyms choose, select, pick, include informal give someone the nod 5Scottish NZ Confer a university degree on. 〈苏格兰，新西兰〉授予…大学学位 Example sentencesExamples - The first ballet troupe I ever saw was the Selwyn Ballet at Otago University's annual capping concert, which summed it all up, really.
- Kate Edger was appointed to teach at Christchurch Girls' High School and at the same time studied for a Master of Arts degree from Canterbury College and was capped in 1882.
- Suspicions have been raised the letter bore a Manawatu postmark and may be linked to a capping stunt at Massey University.
- To most people it conjures up pictures of a group of revellers calling at a series of pubs and having a drink in each, often after a sports match or in the capping festivities at a University.
PhrasesHumbly asking for a favour. 谦卑地请求 we have to go cap in hand begging for funds 我们不得不低三下四地四处寻求资金。 Example sentencesExamples - Tight new spending limits are set to be imposed on Britain's political parties to stop them going cap in hand to donors angling for peerages, knighthoods and other favours.
- The Government and European Space Agency are underwriting at least some of the cost, but fundraisers had to go cap in hand to potential sponsors.
- Rather than going hat in hand to pharmaceutical executives, Canada uses single-payer's price controls to cap drug prices.
- But rather than go cap in hand to the clubs I had rejected, I decided to eat a bit of humble pie and ask Motherwell to take me back.
- In September, a sterling crisis forced the government to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund, a desperate measure previously associated only with banana republics.
- It seems very unfair to now ask them to come cap in hand to be told if what they have done is good enough to be given official approval.
- I went hat in hand and asked for your feedback on the hot young garage punk bands of 2003, and you, the readers, came out in force and told me.
- This is a conurbation of 2.5m people and we ought to be able to raise sufficient revenue for Metrolink without having to keep going cap in hand to government.
- Why, with our council tax running annually well above the rate of inflation, do we as a town need to go cap in hand to the National Lottery simply in order to maintain Corporation Park in the first place?
- With every voter putting no more than five dollars into the Clean Money pool, candidates won't have to go hat in hand to lobbyists and fat cats, instead spending their time talking to voters.
A cap or hat worn as a symbol of official dignity or carried in front of a sovereign on ceremonial occasions. Example sentencesExamples - A cannon of the 1490s, a sword dated 1462, and a ‘cap of maintenance’ from 1536 are just a few of the very ancient treasures on view.
- The King rewarded the city with gifts - the famous cap of maintenance and sword, brought back home by William who was knighted later in life.
- Then comes the royal procession, with Baroness Amos carrying the cap of maintenance, a sort of scarlet bonnet with red trim.
- The coat of arms of the city includes the ‘cap of maintenance’, giving the Sheriff the right to raise an army independently of the Crown.
Used as a way of suggesting that someone should accept a generalized remark or criticism as applying to themselves. 如果说得有理，就该接受 Example sentencesExamples - So (if the cap fits, wear it) I was also there for you, comrades, citizens and Guardian-readers.
- So whether or not you have £1m to spare, if the shoe fits, wear it - if only while you're hoovering.
- The honourable member is obviously fairly thin-skinned, and I suppose one would be entitled to say if the cap fits, wear it.
- It kills me to write things like that, but if the shoe fits, wear it.
- ‘It was not meant as such,’ she replied tartly, ‘but if the cap fits, wear it.’
dated (of a woman) try to attract (a particular man) as a suitor. 〈旧〉（妇女）设法诱使（某男子）成为求婚者 she should buy herself a new frock and set her cap at someone else Example sentencesExamples - I just hope that Mariah knows what she's getting into inviting Hope who will no doubt be ready to set her cap at the first eligible man she meets this evening.
- Given the circumstances, of course, it is difficult to conceive of how she could have been anything other than devastated when her father first set his cap at Heather.
- She is also setting her cap at Adam, which is slightly odd.
- She looks for support to her cousin and legal adviser Frank Greystock, but when his engagement to the demure governess Lucy Morris proves too durable, she sets her cap at the stuffy Lord Fawn.
- She is all too besotted with Mr. Phineas… if I had known that boy would have set his cap for Clara, I never would have allowed him to be our guest… ‘she stopped then, for Clara had entered with David.’
- Rose, Cassandra's beautiful, impulsive older sister, sets her cap at the eldest.
- Into this mix Brooks introduces two young catalysts, journalist Eve, who immediately draws Dan's attentions, and easygoing Gord, who sets his cap for Gena.
- Had she picked a Lord, or a Viscount, or someone of standard to set her cap at then her father wouldn't have voiced a single complaint.
- Although there were those who said that Elizabeth had set her cap at her husband's dashing older brother, it proved to be a happy enough marriage.
- A brutalised war veteran, Harvey has begun a steamed - up adulterous affair with Signoret and finally found something like love, but sets his cap for a millionaire factory boss's daughter.
As the final unfortunate incident in a long series. 最倒霉（或不幸）的是 she was on edge, her nerves taut, and to cap it all, she could feel the beginnings of a headache 她焦躁不安，神经紧张，更糟的是，她感到头开始疼了起来。 Example sentencesExamples - Two goals in the first seven minutes of the second half finished off their Champions League campaign and to cap it all, Alan Smith was sent off in stoppage time.
- And to cap it all, in spite of the CPS faxing the prison on Friday to say they had dropped the charges because of lack of evidence, he was not released until this Monday.
- For Michael, his trainers, his employers and, of course, his family, travelling to South Korea to represent his country was a real thrill - and to cap it all, he came back with a Diploma of Excellence.
- The hour hadn't been put forward on the station clocks, so they were out of kilter with the displayed arrival times - and to cap it all, we had to wait nearly an hour for our train to York.
- And to cap it all, the winter of 1962-63 was one of the harshest in living memory.
- And then, to cap it all, I set the video for the Billy Wilder double bill on BBC2, only to see that it's been cancelled on account of the golf from Augusta.
- However, disillusionment with Livingstone's leadership set in, navigating the Zambezi proved impossible and, to cap it all, his wife died in April 1862.
- And, to cap it all, an almighty savings and pension crisis is brewing.
- We have violence on the streets, violence on the roads, violence in schools, violence in homes, violence in fêtes and now, to cap it all, violence in the House.
- There's more of everything, a plethora of competing versions vying for the user's attention and, to cap it all, the web is so jam-packed with information that it's getting harder by the day to sort the wheat from the chaff.
OriginOld English cæppe 'hood', from late Latin cappa, perhaps from Latin caput 'head'. We get our word cap from Latin cappa ‘hood’, which may be related to Latin caput ‘head’. Cape (late 16th century), ‘a cloak’, also come from cappa, while the geographical cape (Late Middle English) goes back to caput. The same source gives us chaperone (Late Middle English) first recorded as a hood. A person providing protection or cover by accompanying another, dates from the early 18th century. The saying if the cap fits, wear it goes back to a dunce's cap, of the kind that poor performers at school had to wear as a mark of disgrace. Americans use the version if the shoe fits, wear it. See also chapel
Rhymesbap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, map, nap, nappe, pap, rap, sap, schappe, scrap, slap, snap, strap, tap, trap, wrap, yap, zap nounPlural caps kapkæp Finance as modifier mid-cap companies 中等资本化公司。 short for capitalization 小型资本化股票。 Example sentencesExamples - Shareholders don't benefit from a higher market cap when it grew mostly because the company issued new shares used to acquire other companies.
- Since then it has patiently bided its time, even while it snapped up lenders in Latin America and built a $56 billion market cap.
- Hummingbird Value Fund's Paul Sonkin uses cap rates to separate potential investments from poor-returning companies.
- There is a positive impact on earnings per share, cash flow, market cap and share prices.
- The small company stocks Ibbotson tracks are in the bottom 20% in terms of market cap.
- On an individual basis, if you measure by market cap, Genentech is the world's largest biotech.
- That's nowhere near its $120 billion market cap, but it still may have to take a write-down for some of those deals.
- Schwab was about the same size firm when I got there, about $3 billion to $3.5 billion in market cap.
- True, eBay's price-earnings ratio is a lofty 90, with an $18 billion market cap.
- The cap is short for capitalization, which is a measure by which we can classify a company's size.
- In fact, the combined market cap of both companies is below that of Barnes & Noble Inc. alone before the IPO.
- That makes Genzyme Corp. the third-largest U.S. independent biotech company by market cap.
- The company now has more than $2.4 billion in annual sales and a $17.4 billion market cap.
- With a $51.6 billion market cap, News Corp. would have made this top decile were it already a member of the index.
- We aren't opening this fund because we think it's a good time to invest in large caps, although certainly valuations look more compelling.
- It used to be companies evaluated their size based on revenue and number of people; now it's market cap or market valuation.
abbreviationˌsiːˌeɪˈpiːˌsiˌeɪˈpi 1Common Agricultural Policy.
nounkæpkap 1A kind of soft, flat hat without a brim and typically with a visor. （尤指有帽舌的）无檐软平帽 Example sentencesExamples - This simple item could be opened and worn on the head, creating a three-dimensional cap out of flat strips alternating with empty spaces.
- The ‘Venus of Willendorf’, for example, has a mere knob of a head, her face obscured by what has been interpreted as a cap of curls.
- He wore a flat cap, old woolen trousers, and a brown shirt that was several sizes too large for him.
- Mr Binns said the style of dress worn by those photographed, particularly the flat caps and bow ties, would be in keeping with the late Victorian era when Whitby was well established as a resort.
- The man was quite tall and he and the woman were both wearing jeans, wellington boots and flat caps.
- Disillusioned dairy farmers in Yorkshire could soon be turning cowboys and switching their flat caps for Stetsons if they take up an offer to relocate to South Dakota.
- Outside the grand clubhouse at the Legends course, at the heart of Château Elan, you almost expect chaps to be wandering around in plus-fours and flat caps.
- For the cricket lover, there is no sight to compare with that of two middle-aged men, wearing lab coats and flat caps, coming down the pavilion steps with measured tread.
- He is the old bloke with the flat cap and the transistor radio, isn't he?
- The flat cap was a feature of British life through most of he last century.
- I get back to Lancashire quite a bit - my family's still there - and I don't think I've seen anybody in a flat cap up there since about 1975.
- I stood there alone and watched as four men entered dressed in donkey jackets and flat caps.
- Very few of them, no matter how poor, are bareheaded: the men wear flat caps, bowlers, straw boaters, trilbies, toppers, the women shawls or floral hats.
- Women's bright caps were worn flat on the head and had flaps on either side.
- Virtually all the working men wear flat caps, while the managerial staff wear bowlers.
- The technique was commonly used for different kinds of headgear, such as caps, hoods, bonnets, hairnets and snoods, as well as for stockings, mittens, collars and sashes.
- He even turns a flat cap and Barbour into something of a fashion statement, the kind of thing that could well catch on in Shoreditch or Manchester.
- Most men covered their heads with flat wool caps or skullcaps or turbans in a variety of sizes and colours.
- Rochdale bobbies on the beat switched to flat caps four years ago but continued to wear helmets at ceremonies.
- 1.1with adjective or noun modifier A kind of soft, close-fitting head covering worn for a particular purpose or as a mark of a particular profession or status.
软帽 一个游泳帽。 Example sentencesExamples - In the hallway outside, I was handed a mask and cap.
- Then, in the 1950s, a traveller notices bay cat fur on two ceremonial caps being worn by Dayak tribespeople.
- Each year they moved to the next level getting different colour ribbons and swimming caps.
- The main beach, on the other hand, is a huge sweep of golden sand that attract hundreds of day trippers and is patrolled by lifesavers in distinctive red and yellow caps.
- There is a nudist part of the beach at Playa de Inglis and what amused us as we walked along there was to see elderly ladies bathing in the sea in the nude yet still wearing caps or other headgear to protect their coiffures.
- So I would sweat like crazy in a yellow rubber swim cap while Lee Ann Billings and Jamie Reader dipped their blonde hair in and out of the cool, chlorine tainted water.
- They rode sturdy Mongolian ponies, wore distinctive fur caps, and carried sabers, pistols, and rifles.
- Protheroe, in padded dressing gown and tasseled cap, laughed and rose to greet his friend.
- Cover head in plastic cap or plastic wrap and cover with a warm towel.
- Keep long hair pulled back or placed in a cap for added protection.
- Johnny is going to have to do a hell of a lot more than put on a ski cap in order to get you off, you know!
- The clothing line will include running and cycling shorts, shimmels, caps and swimsuits in technical fabrics that breathe and wick away moisture.
- If you can get your hands on a vintage hair dryer - the kind you find in thrift stores that look like a shower cap stuffed into a round suitcase, you won't regret it.
- Men often wear a long white robe called a jallabiyah, with either a small cap or a turban as a head covering.
- Opened in November 2001, it's run by two brothers with similar close-cut reddish beards, ethnic clothes and close-fitting caps.
- And if I have to sit wearing a swimming cap covered in electrodes to show willing, OK, so I will.
- Those early wheelmen didn't have bicycle helmets, but they did wear close-fitting long-visored caps.
- I hugged both of my parents before securing my black back over my shoulder, pulling my newsboy cap lower over my face and hurrying to my gate.
- If you think you can pull off any look, then I suggest you try on this chalk-stripe driving cap.
- More Americans were showing up every minute, bearing flags and ball caps and yellow bracelets, ready to howl and shout and taste history.
- 1.2 An academic mortarboard.
学位帽 graduates in cap and gown Example sentencesExamples - She brought with her the mortarboard cap that she had worn at her graduation.
- The graduates look very scholarly in their caps and gowns.
- But in field after field, paper journals are becoming like academic caps and gowns, a purely ceremonial relict of an obsolete culture.
- Whether you're one of the lucky grads yourself, or some of your friends are throwing their grad caps in the air, grad season is upon us.
- The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century.
- Success in that final exam ensures that their parents' dream, which by now should also be their own, of a cap and gown clad university graduate is within grasp.
- The same percentage of MIT engineering graduates in their caps and gowns could not light a bulb with a battery and one wire.
- Josephine English didn't rent a cap and gown when she heard she had graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from a Dublin college.
- The graduates were well attired for the occasion, with coloured convocation robes, inner suit and the flat cap completing the ensemble.
- Your proud high school graduate has gone from caps and gowns to the fast-paced, challenging world of summer jobs.
- A handful of teachers and several dozen graduating seniors, still in their caps and gowns from the formal graduation earlier in the day, attended the event.
- The International School of Port-of-Spain 2005 graduates happily throw their caps in the air at the end of the commencement programme.
Synonyms mortar board, academic cap - 1.3 The top of a bird's head when distinctively colored.
彩色鸟顶冠 Example sentencesExamples - Males and females look the same, with white chins extending up just below the eyes and gray-brown caps.
- As he angled, we admired his teal plumage, chestnut neck, pine green cap, and white ventral stripe.
- Although drab in winter, males spend much of the year resplendent in bright lemon-yellow plumage set off by black and white wings, cap, and tail.
- Their heads are also relatively smaller and their gray caps less distinct than the Cooper's.
- With their white cheeks and dark caps and throats, Chestnut-backed Chickadees look much like Black-capped Chickadees.
- The adult in non-breeding plumage is similar, but with a white forehead that darkens to streaky black, as if the cap has receded.
- The crane has light to dark blue-gray plumage and a crimson cap at the back of its crown.
- The juvenile appears similar to the adult in breeding plumage, but lacks the reddish-brown cap and dark belly.
- Light morphs have brown upperparts with a blackish cap and white collar, white underparts, and yellowish sides of the neck.
- Females have gray caps and a slightly lighter rufous color on the undersides.
- It is heavily barred brown-and-white above and below, with a white eye-line that separates a rufous cap and cheek.
2A protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens. （瓶子、笔尖或照相机镜头的）帽，盖 Example sentencesExamples - Removing the cap to the acid bottle, she gingerly covered it with eight layers of carefully folded foil, sticking the foil down with a piece of duct tape.
- Nic and I were only trying to use our side of the doorknob to get the caps off two bottles of Heineken.
- I couldn't unscrew the cap of those little bottles with one thumb if my life depended upon it.
- I leave so the staff can have their turn: theirs are the empty plastic milk sachets, torn bits of paper from the waste-basket, cardboard boxes, bottle caps.
- Garbage had to be sorted out - plastic bags, lids, bottle caps, etc.
- She pointedly puts the cap on her camera lens and walks with him.
- I mean, if my cat can be happy batting around a bottle cap, surely I can find something to be happy about too.
- First they collected bottle caps, beer mats and can rings.
- Plastic jugs and bottles can be placed in the bins marked for glass, and for both plastic and glass, it is good to rinse out the bottles and remove the caps.
- A museum in its Shunde headquarters displays a few plastic bottle caps along with a small, rusting electric fan that looks like a relic from the bottom of the sea.
- The ingredients were on the bottle cap, which everyone tossed away.
- This includes bottle caps, tin covers or aluminum foil - these are some of the items service technicians commonly find in clogged or broken disposals.
- Instead of tiles or concrete the shop's floors were covered with dirt and bottle caps.
- Here consumers take caps off the plastic bottles, dump any liquid from the bottles into a bucket, and bag the bottles.
- Someone cleared their throat, and Artemesia straightened up, snapping the lens cap onto the camera.
- I opened my notebook and picked up my favourite black pen, and tapped the cap against my teeth, thinking about what I wanted to write.
- The plastic cap fits on the bottle and locks when a small ‘key’ is pulled from it.
- Childproof caps on medicine bottles are a safety feature but they require some thought by adults in order to use them properly.
- Very, very carefully pour a tiny bit of vermouth into the cap of the vermouth bottle.
- In the rush of setting everything up for a shot you would be surprised at the number of people who set the camera recording with the lens cap still on.
Synonyms lid, top, stopper, cork, bung, spile - 2.1 An artificial protective covering for a tooth.
〔牙科〕人造牙冠 Example sentencesExamples - While your dentist might still recommend an apple a day and be able to fit natural-looking caps, the latest orthodontic innovations concentrate on stopping decay before it has a chance to do any damage.
- Her whole jaw was bruised, her cap for her tooth cost £404.
- Then, Bodine suffered a concussion and a broken collarbone and needed eight caps for his teeth because of a practice crash at Michigan.
3An upper limit imposed on spending or other activities. 花费（或借款的）上限 a cap on government purchases Example sentencesExamples - To some extent, they conceded, both standards would impose a cap or ceiling of some sort.
- Disney agreed to raise the caps on pension benefits and put a limit on yearly hikes in health benefits that are deducted on a weekly basis from paychecks.
- In the hope of ending speculation about the rising cost of the project Magahy proposed in May 2001 that a cap be imposed.
- Failing to negotiate a cap on investors' legal fees could leave you with a huge bill.
- The package here offers students no up-front fees, loan forgiveness at 25 years, no real rate of interest, a generous grant and bursary system and a cap on the fee itself.
- To achieve this, the survey promised to raise caps on foreign direct investment and open up more sectors to global capital.
- He was complaining about the absence of a cap in campaign spending before the formal election period, even though it was his party that exploited this loophole prior to the last election.
- Congress can show a commitment to this by raising or eliminating the cap on wages taxed for Social Security.
- Even putting a cap on the price spent on it makes more sense.
- The best solution I can think of is the wage cap which operates in Rugby League.
- It also raised the cap on foreign direct investment in private banks to 74 per cent from 49 per cent.
- Daly is also pushing for the Shannon board's borrowing cap to be raised from €20 million to €100 million in the legislation.
- While not the same as rigid price caps, bid caps place limits on the prices that energy suppliers can offer to municipalities and companies.
- Tendring's share of this year's council tax bill has been set at a level which could lead to a Government cap on spending
- He promises to impose spending caps and offset spending increases with mandatory spending cuts or tax increases.
- With a cap on spending during elections, ministers are using the extra perks to beef up their campaign without declaring them as expenses.
- The bonus money received from the performance pool would not count against teams' salary caps.
- He has just called for a constitutional cap on state spending and made clear his distaste for new taxes.
- This time around, spending caps may not be enough.
- He was omitted because of the cap on team strengths in the competition, but will ride tomorrow in what looks a lost cause against the champions.
Synonyms limit, upper limit, ceiling 4The broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores. （蘑菇或伞菌的）菌盖 Example sentencesExamples - When you're buying loose mushrooms, choose those with smooth, unblemished caps, firm gills, and a clean aroma.
- And at the base of the cerebrum, emerging like the stalk from a mushroom cap, is an elongated structure, the brain stem.
- Spoon into pepper and tomato halves and over mushroom caps.
- The cap & stem that we commonly eat is just the fruiting body.
- A bird hippocampus sits on top of the brain, rather like a mushroom cap.
- If possible, please show the gills beneath the cap.
- The C. deceptive should have pale pinkish spore print, adnate to decurrent gills about the same colour of the cap, which should be pale brown or greyish with incurved margins.
- Enoki mushrooms are pale and fragile, with slender stems and tiny caps.
- Count the gills under the cap - or in the case of a boletus, the holes.
- Five tall, slender mushrooms with yellow stems and glowing orange caps reach through the decaying foliage toward the sky as ants burrow underground.
- Although the colour of the cap is quite variable, the blackening should serve to distinguish it from other similar looking fungi.
- M. rachodes has white spores and white gills on specimens of all ages, and the stern stains orange to red when cut near the junction with the cap.
- The surface of the cap of each fungiform structure is either tangential, or slightly inclined, to the surface of the carapace.
- Larger mushroom caps of course are better and you can be creative with your stuffing choices.
- Coral mushrooms do not have caps but instead have a fruiting body of branched clusters.
- In the autumn, they came and gathered mushrooms from the few tree stumps she'd deigned to leave in her garden, mushrooms with caps of white, yellow, brown and even blue.
- The mature cap is metallic green in color, but it varies from light yellow to greenish-brown.
5 short for percussion cap Example sentencesExamples - We started selling snap caps a little over a year ago.
- So, before you buy that cap gun or bouncing ball for your child, take some precautions.
- Like many boys he had been fascinated with guns when a young child and had the usual cap guns and nerd guns.
verbkæpkap [with object]1Put a lid or cover on. 给…加盖（或帽） 他将钢笔套上笔帽。 Example sentencesExamples - Philip poured the liquid from the cup into a bottle, capping it afterwards.
- The bottles are then capped and placed in the cool cellars of the winery for up to 2 years.
- Merlin capped his pen and set his journal on the office desk in front of him.
- Each bottle was then capped and ready for display.
- For maximum battery life, it's suggested the gun be worn concealed, and the sight be capped with the provided cover when not in use.
- Gabrielle carefully closed The Anthem, stood up as the bell rang, capped her pen and stuck it into her jean pocket.
- He said that there have been discussions to change the technology of capping the wine bottles but so far the cork has remained.
- He thanked me absently, capped his pen, and we all walked out into the quiet night, substantially calmer than last week.
- Fill the bottle halfway with warm water, cap it and shake to mix.
- The men placed toilet bowl cleanser and aluminum foil in a plastic bottle and then capped the bottle before leaving the Lakeland restaurant.
- Bottles are capped with an aluminum foil seal, which is sent through a chute that catches the lip of the bottle.
- After capping it, the bottle should be shaken for 20 seconds.
- Evander took another drink of water and capped the bottle.
- She sighed and capped her pen, setting it on top of her notepad.
- I capped the pen and put it down, considering whether or not I should just rip up this poem and forget I ever wrote it.
- Cameron closed her Bible, shut the notebook, capped the pen, and then put everything away before leaving to go downstairs with me.
- When I capped the pen and folded the paper R. asked with surprise, ‘You're done?’
- 1.1 Form a covering layer or top part of.
覆盖，笼罩 as adjective, in combination snow-capped mountains several towers were capped by domes 几座塔被覆以圆顶。 Example sentencesExamples - It was a massive eight-sided chamber capped with a dome.
- Mt Fuji has been on show for a month or so now, pollution notwithstanding, and so on the windy days it is standing proud and erect in the distance, capped with the usual white dome of snow.
- They found the rare element iridium in the thin clay layer that caps the rocks of the Cretaceous era.
- The controversial hole in the ground will be capped with a layer of clay when planning permission runs out in December and landfill operators begin what they call ‘restoration’ of the site.
- The entire intricate construction covered more than one hectare of land, and the towers soared some 30 meters high, jauntily capped by Catalan flags and banners.
- The one-story library headquarters platform caps the building.
- Reclamation dredging is nearing completion and all reclaimed land will then be capped with a layer of rock, imported from a nearby quarry.
- She was a beautiful lilac colour and her tail was luxurious, although not so luxurious as my own, and her long face was capped with two perfectly shaped ears.
- A new jumbo monopitch supported by heavy steel trusses caps the building and introduces light through clerestory glazing.
- There would be a layer of soil that was capped with a layer of stones that was capped with a layer of soil and so on.
- Pod and dome are linked to a glazed reception pavilion capped by an oversailing fabric roof.
- Designed by French architect Roger Taillibert, the stadium was one of the first sports stadiums in the world to be capped with a plastic dome roof.
- The Lawrence County Courthouse, composed of stone and brick, has three stories surmounted by a massive tower in two stages capped by a segmental dome and cupola.
- As a temporary repair measure, English Heritage had the crater in the centre of the hill packed with polystyrene and capped with a layer of chalk.
- They built it not long ago, big and ugly, with a massive sloped roof rising up to the top of the bell tower, which is capped with a fat building-block cross.
- Almost perfectly intact, it was a circle of pillars capped with an ornate dome.
- The plateau surface is mostly capped with resistant sandstone over less resistant shale and limestone layers intermixed with some sandstone layers.
- The Earth has an iron core surrounded by a dense layer called the mantle, which is capped with a thin rind of rocky crust.
- Designed by Simpson & Ayrton, and built of reinforced concrete by Owen Williams, it was memorable for its twin towers, capped with exotic, New Delhi-like domes.
- The radiocarbon-dated feature that produced the wild rice was located at the bottom of an undisturbed Late Woodland midden that had been capped with a layer of sterile sand.
- 1.2 Put an artificial protective covering on (a tooth).
〔牙科〕人造牙冠 Example sentencesExamples - The scenes that are presumably supposed to depict camaraderie are hilariously forced; three sets of perfectly capped teeth clenched into rictus grins of barely suppressed hatred.
- You finally settle on the pleasant face on the screen - the big hair, bright power suit, capped teeth and colorful talons - blandly reading the news.
- It's in a tooth that's capped and had a recent root canal filling.
- Coals flashed Marcus a grin, so full of perfectly capped teeth, so taut at the lips, so fleshy at the gum line that for a split second the image of a shark in an expensive wool suit was unavoidable.
- He greeted his opponent's return to action with a snapping inside out kick on the end of a timely upward leap, thus snapping Johnson's head to one side and at last drawing blood from the pierced cavity of a crooked gold capped tooth.
- Typically it's over $100 for a checkup, $444 to get my bottom teeth capped, and having all four of my wisdom teeth taken out is going to cost around $2000.
- Miss Meters smiled, flashing her chipped teeth, revealing that the two front ones had been capped with bronze.
- He's paid out good money to have his teeth capped and cauliflower ear sorted.
- In bearing the pain he ground his teeth so hard that 11 of them had to be capped or replaced after the race.
- Behind the jowls the expertly capped teeth shimmer.
- If they've got bad teeth, you'll cap the teeth, if they need a makeover, you give them a makeover.
- As I rider, well, let's just say, I'm glad most of my teeth are already capped.
- Take the dentist I went to when I needed to have my teeth capped a while ago.
- All but her front incisors are capped with some very red gold, it's either very red gold or it looks coppery.
- Four root treatments had been carried out and a damaged tooth had been capped.
- He was short and fat and had next to no hair, several of his teeth were capped with gold.
- My teeth have been capped and bleached to sparkle with a false warmth when I contort my features into what you call a smile.
- He showed his cupped hands to Bligh and they were full of engraved tinder boxes, rings, broken teeth capped with gold.
2Provide a fitting climax or conclusion to. 使达到高潮；结束 he capped a memorable season by becoming champion 他以成为冠军中的冠军的方式结束了这个难忘赛季。 Example sentencesExamples - Dan Potter will cap a wonderful personal month tomorrow when he is crowned the Knights' Player of the Month for August, as voted for by Evening Press readers.
- The Kiwi-born pop star caps a roller coaster 12 months with her first UK tour, which started on Tuesday.
- Yesterday's closing activities capped the end of a week-long, jammed-packed schedule of events.
- It caps a disappointing 12 months for South Africa in which it also lost its grasp of second place in the ICC Test Championship.
- While Rovers sweeper Luke McAnelly capped a fine season by winning the man of the match award, coach Al Duroux refused to single out any star performers.
- Instead, his victory capped a memorable night for the Buck family.
- Record-breaking runner Paula Radcliffe has been awarded the prestigious Women of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award, capping a memorable weekend for her.
- The Reds, however, were not finished and they capped a memorable afternoon with a fifth try in the final minute when Darren Treacy forced his way over from close range.
- It capped a memorable first season in charge for Wetheriggs manager Andrew Ridley, his assistant Bob Norman and coach Paul Renwick.
- Katie Heginbotham from Barrows Green triumphed at HOYS to cap a memorable season.
- This development caps a highly successful period for the Royal Armouries in Leeds which has seen a 66 per cent increase in visitor numbers in six months.
- The team capped a great season by finishing seventh in the tournament.
- The colt's success capped a memorable Epsom meeting which also saw Casual Look win the Oaks, giving trainer Andrew Balding a Classic success in his first season as a trainer.
- York got eight points to cap a fine qualifying season.
- York and District Indoor Bowls club capped a fine season as their men completed a hat-trick of victories in the county leagues, writes Ian Clough.
- Keane capped a memorable 2004 by being named the best breakthrough act, as well as best British album for the brilliant Hopes and Fears.
- Michigan finished 10-2 and capped its season with an overtime victory over Alabama in the Orange Bowl.
- Staveley's Rob Jebb capped a magnificent season on the fells, fulfilling one of his dreams by winning Saturday's Ben Nevis race.
- It caps his 38-year ascent from a lowly clerk to the second leader of the former British colony since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
- Andrew Johnson was named the Crystal Palace Player of the Year for the second successive season last weekend to cap off a memorable campaign.
Synonyms round off, crown, be a fitting climax to, put the finishing touch to, put the finishing touches to, perfect, complete - 2.1 Follow or reply to (a story, remark, or joke) by producing a better or more apposite one.
胜过；超过；盖过（前面的故事、评论或笑话） they capped each other's stories Example sentencesExamples - I can't say how many on-line discussions have been capped by a quotation from Rand's writing as if his having said something settled everything.
- Ruth would have felt the need to cap the comment in some way, or qualify it, or even dismiss it out of hand as arrant nonsense.
- Cave's not a lunatic on a killing spree; he's a lovelorn bombmaker, and he caps this cinematic story of devotion with a spirited sing-along.
- It's effectively capped by Coral's response ‘Which one is cheaper?’
- Mac McMurray capped this story by saying a townsman had a piece of petrified fence post with the drilled holes for wire with a piece of the wire attached.
- I would guess that volumes of his poetry are as frequently met with as Buildings of England, and a favourite party game between complete strangers is to cap a quote or say which of his poems you admire most.
- This work was capped in 1939 with the publication of The Nature of the Chemical Bond, one of the most-cited texts in the history of science.
- He caps it all off with the snide dismissal ‘it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.’
Synonyms beat, better, surpass, outdo, outshine, trump, top, upstage
3Place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or other activity) 限制，约束（价格、开销或借款） council budgets will be capped 委员会的预算将受到限制。 Example sentencesExamples - It also makes sense to cap the limit for exempting the inheritance tax at $5 million.
- There was controversy at the time when the Minister, Michael Lowry, announced he was capping the licence fee at £15 million when commentators estimated it was worth up to £110 million.
- Those who make a voluntary disclosure to the Revenue before November 15 will have their privacy protected and interest and penalties will be capped at twice the amount of the tax owed.
- The legislation, however, does not place a flat cap on the value of the homestead exemption that an individual can exempt in bankruptcy.
- Mr Lowry said at the time that Commission objections led him to extend the tender time fee and to cap the fee.
- The potential damage is compounded by new proposals to cap tuition increases, at the very moment that both state support and endowments are plummeting.
- The aim is to cap prices on basic commodities such as eggs, vegetables, fruit, rice, canned foods, chicken and other meat products.
- One of the most controversial recommendations of the report calls for the government to endorse a package of measures to fundamentally reform the property market by capping the price of development land.
- If it caps the price of wonder drugs, pharmaceutical companies will fight it.
- What Mrs. Alexander is really saying is that trial attorneys won't make as much money if punitive damages are capped.
- They will not be given a free hand to expend their facilities for treating fee paying patients: the percentage of income derived from this source is to be capped.
- My experience from my other businesses is that you have to cap the price at the level where your competitors are.
- Earlier this year BT announced that it was capping the cost of phone calls for businesses as part of a move to overhaul call tariffs.
- He said he hoped the government's measure to cap fuel prices should not last too long because it could have repercussions in the long run.
- The amount that members can claim is not capped, although a cap is to be introduced eventually as part of an ongoing review by the compensation committee.
- In July, the Competition Commissioner told mobile operators they were charging too much for connecting calls from other networks and recommended that prices be capped.
- The Kyoto Protocol caps global emissions, but with two huge exceptions.
- One solution might be to cap claimants' costs at, say, 10% of the compensation recovered unless a good reason was shown for a higher amount.
- China agreed in June to cap its future spending on farm subsidies at 8.5 per cent of the value of domestic farm production.
- The public system caps spending at $45 million for the primary.
Synonyms set a limit on, put a ceiling on, limit, restrict, keep within bounds
Phrasesset one's cap for (or at) dated (of a woman) try to attract (a particular man) as a suitor. 〈旧〉（妇女）设法诱使（某男子）成为求婚者 Example sentencesExamples - Had she picked a Lord, or a Viscount, or someone of standard to set her cap at then her father wouldn't have voiced a single complaint.
- Rose, Cassandra's beautiful, impulsive older sister, sets her cap at the eldest.
- A brutalised war veteran, Harvey has begun a steamed - up adulterous affair with Signoret and finally found something like love, but sets his cap for a millionaire factory boss's daughter.
- She looks for support to her cousin and legal adviser Frank Greystock, but when his engagement to the demure governess Lucy Morris proves too durable, she sets her cap at the stuffy Lord Fawn.
- She is all too besotted with Mr. Phineas… if I had known that boy would have set his cap for Clara, I never would have allowed him to be our guest… ‘she stopped then, for Clara had entered with David.’
- Into this mix Brooks introduces two young catalysts, journalist Eve, who immediately draws Dan's attentions, and easygoing Gord, who sets his cap for Gena.
- She is also setting her cap at Adam, which is slightly odd.
- Given the circumstances, of course, it is difficult to conceive of how she could have been anything other than devastated when her father first set his cap at Heather.
- Although there were those who said that Elizabeth had set her cap at her husband's dashing older brother, it proved to be a happy enough marriage.
- I just hope that Mariah knows what she's getting into inviting Hope who will no doubt be ready to set her cap at the first eligible man she meets this evening.
OriginOld English cæppe ‘hood’, from late Latin cappa, perhaps from Latin caput ‘head’. nounkæpkap Finance as modifier mid-cap companies 中等资本化公司。 short for capitalization 小型资本化股票。 Example sentencesExamples - That's nowhere near its $120 billion market cap, but it still may have to take a write-down for some of those deals.
- Schwab was about the same size firm when I got there, about $3 billion to $3.5 billion in market cap.
- On an individual basis, if you measure by market cap, Genentech is the world's largest biotech.
- Shareholders don't benefit from a higher market cap when it grew mostly because the company issued new shares used to acquire other companies.
- The small company stocks Ibbotson tracks are in the bottom 20% in terms of market cap.
- In fact, the combined market cap of both companies is below that of Barnes & Noble Inc. alone before the IPO.
- True, eBay's price-earnings ratio is a lofty 90, with an $18 billion market cap.
- The cap is short for capitalization, which is a measure by which we can classify a company's size.
- Hummingbird Value Fund's Paul Sonkin uses cap rates to separate potential investments from poor-returning companies.
- With a $51.6 billion market cap, News Corp. would have made this top decile were it already a member of the index.
- That makes Genzyme Corp. the third-largest U.S. independent biotech company by market cap.
- The company now has more than $2.4 billion in annual sales and a $17.4 billion market cap.
- There is a positive impact on earnings per share, cash flow, market cap and share prices.
- It used to be companies evaluated their size based on revenue and number of people; now it's market cap or market valuation.
- Since then it has patiently bided its time, even while it snapped up lenders in Latin America and built a $56 billion market cap.
- We aren't opening this fund because we think it's a good time to invest in large caps, although certainly valuations look more compelling.
abbreviationˌsēˌāˈpēˌsiˌeɪˈpi 2Common Agricultural Policy.
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