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spruce1/spru:s/ adj. & v.●adj. neat in dress and appearance; trim, smart (衣着或外表)整洁漂亮的 ●v. tr. & intr. (also 亦作 refl.; usu. foll. by 通常后跟 up) make or become smart 使整洁漂亮;打扮得整洁漂亮 □ sprucely adv.□ spruceness n.[perhaps from SPRUCE2 in obsolete sense ‘Prussian’, in the collocation spruce (leather) jerkin] |