- neat in dress and appearance（衣着或外表）整洁的：
he looked as spruce as if he were heading for a meeting with his bank manager.
他穿着整洁, 像是要去和银行经理见面一样。
with obj.(spruce someone/thing up)
- make a person or place smarter or tidier把（人, 地方）装扮得更漂亮（更整洁）：
the fund will be used to spruce up historic buildings.
这笔资金将用来装扮古建筑。
派生词
sprucely
adverbspruceness
noun词源
late 16th cent.: perhaps from SPRUCE2 in the obsolete sense 'Prussian', in the phrase spruce （leather） jerkin.
1
- a widespread coniferous tree which has a distinctive conical shape and hanging cones, widely grown for timber, pulp, and Christmas trees云杉。
1.1
- Genus Picea, family Pinaceae: many species.云杉属, 松科：多种。
词源
late Middle English (denoting Prussia or something originating in Prussia)： alteration of obsolete Pruce 'Prussia'. The application to the tree dates from the early 17th cent.
no obj.
1- Brit. informal, dated engage in pretence or deception, especially by feigning illness〈英, 非正式, 旧〉说谎, 骗人（尤指装病）：
he's no fool; he'd have known if she was sprucing.
他一点也不笨, 如果她说谎的话他早就知道了。
1.1
- with obj. deceive欺骗：
they spruced you proper.
他们完全欺骗了你。
派生词
sprucer
noun词源
early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.