Dress

(noun.) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice.

(verb.) arrange attractively; 'dress my hair for the wedding'.

(verb.) dress in a certain manner; 'She dresses in the latest Paris fashion'; 'he dressed up in a suit and tie'.

(verb.) give a neat appearance to; 'groom the dogs'; 'dress the horses'.

(verb.) put on clothes; 'we had to dress quickly'; 'dress the patient'; 'Can the child dress by herself?'.

(verb.) provide with clothes or put clothes on; 'Parents must feed and dress their child'.

(verb.) apply a bandage or medication to; 'dress the victim's wounds'.

(verb.) convert into leather; 'dress the tanned skins'.

(verb.) kill and prepare for market or consumption; 'dress a turkey'.

(verb.) put a finish on; 'dress the surface smooth'.

(verb.) put a dressing on; 'dress the salads'.

(verb.) provide with decoration; 'dress the windows'.

(verb.) arrange in ranks; 'dress troops'.

(verb.) cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width.

(adj.) (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes; 'a dress dinner'; 'a full-dress ceremony' .

弗朗西丝编辑

• I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• How can you wait in this dress in the middle of the streets? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I wish all the young men would dress as you do, said I to his lordship. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Is our dress a pit-dress or a gallery-dress ma'am? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I can do dress-making very well; and I understand fine washing and ironing; and between us we can find something to live on. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Affery, who had watched her in terror, darted to her in the middle of the room, caught hold of her dress, and went on her knees to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Soon after my arrival in the hovel, I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She was dressed in blue, with woollen yellow stockings, like the Bluecoat boys. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• How was she dressed? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Why should a man scrape himself to that extent, before he could consider himself full dressed? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Just let him be sent to the calaboose a few times, and thoroughly dressed down! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• As to dressing, I make this vow: I'll never dress more finely than as you see me at present. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He led them into a stone kitchen, fitted with coppers for dressing the prison food, and pointed to a door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He put the tray with the breakfast and the letter on the dressing-table, before which Becky sat combing her yellow hair. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I found two letters on my dressing-table; the first I took up was in my young nephew's well-known round text. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Similarly, it might be said that the dress was the Queen of Dresses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I was struck, on entering the drawing-room, by the curious contrast, rather in material than in colour, of the dresses which they now wore. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Their female costume became astonishingly modern in style; their women wore corsets and flounced dresses. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is your last box of Doucet dresses a failure, or did Judy rook you out of everything at bridge last night? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They wear it in their hair, and on their ball-dresses, and even (so she tells me) are presented at Court with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

校对:瓦珥