dress down

英 [dres daʊn]

美 [dres daʊn]

（比平时）穿着随便

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (比平时)穿着随便
  If youdress down, you wear clothes that are less smart than usual.
  1. She dresses down in baggy clothes to avoid hordes of admirers.
     她随便穿了件宽松的衣服以免被大批的粉丝认出。
• See also:Campbell dressed them down in public.dressing-down

英英释义

verb

• dress informally and casually
  1. On Fridays, employees can underdress
  Synonym:underdress
• censure severely or angrily
  1. The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  2. The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  3. The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
  Synonym:call on the carpettake to taskrebukeragtrouncereprooflecturereprimandjawcall downscoldchideberatebawl outremonstratechew outchew uphave wordslambastelambast

双语例句

• The Gym teacher, Coach Clapp, found me a uniform but didn't make me dress down for today's class.
  体育课老师克拉普教练给我找了件运动服，但没让我在这堂课就换上。
• She leapt from the car, hitched up her dress and sprinted down the road after him
  她从车上跳下来，提起连衣裙，对他一路紧追不放。
• The tailor cut the dress down.
  裁缝把衣服改小了。
• This dress buttons down the front, but that one down the back.
  这件衣服的钮扣是扣在前面的，但那一件是扣后面。
• Some profes-sions, such as advertising, dress down all the time to demonstrate their creativity.
  在有些行业，如广告业，人们则一直穿便装，以展示他们的创造性。
• Can you make the dress down for her young sister?
  你能把衣服改小给她妹妹穿吗？
• When I was twenty-eight, I was teaching English to freshmen in a high school where occasionally the faculty and staff were allowed to dress down.
  我二十八岁时，在一所高中教新生英语，学校的教职员工偶尔可以穿着便装。
• Help me to dress the dog down so that it would look nice.
  帮我把狗洗洗，让人看上去舒服。
• Shops were boarded up, banks warned employees to dress down and police responded to reports of a suspicious package at the bank.
  店家给商店上了铺板，银行警告员工不要穿着时髦，而警察也对英国央行报告的可疑包裹加以处置。
• This is never more apparent than on "dress& down days", when what you wear can say more about you than any business suit ever could.
  这种“以衣度人”的态度在“便装日”表现得更为明显，这时你的穿着比任何商务套装都更能说明你的一切。