spruce

英 [spruːs]

美 [spruːs]

n.  云杉; 云杉木
v.  打扮整齐; 使显干净
adj.  整洁的

现在分词：sprucing　过去分词：spruced　过去式：spruced　复数：spruces　第三人称单数：spruces　

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短语动词

短语用例

spruce up

spruce sb/sth/yourself↔up

• 打扮；把…收拾整洁
  to make sb/sth/yourself clean and neat

牛津词典

noun

• 云杉
  an evergreen forest tree with leaves like needles
• 云杉木
  the soft wood of the spruce , used, for example, in making paper

verb

verb

adj.

• 整洁的
  neat and clean in appearance

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 云杉;花旗松
  Aspruceis a kind of evergreen tree.
  1. Trees such as spruce, pine and oak have been planted.
     种植了云杉、松树和橡树等树木。
  2. ...a young blue spruce.
     蓝云杉幼株
  3. ...80-year-old spruces.
     有着80年树龄的云杉
  4. Spruceis the wood from this tree.
     云杉木材
  5. Early settlers built frames of spruce, maple and pine.
     早期的定居者用云杉木、枫木和松木建造屋架。
• ADJ-GRADED (人)整洁漂亮的
  Someone who isspruceis very neat and smart in appearance.
  1. Chris was looking spruce in his stiff-collared black shirt and new short hair cut.
     克里斯穿着硬领黑衫，新理了短发，看起来整洁帅气。

英英释义

noun

• any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
• light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees

verb

• dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
  1. He spruced up for the party
  Synonym:spruce upslick upsmarten up
• make neat, smart, or trim
  1. Spruce up your house for Spring
  2. titivate the child
  Synonym:spruce uptitivatetittivatesmarten upslick upspiff up

adj

• marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  1. a dapper young man
  2. a jaunty red hat
  Synonym:dapperdashingjauntynattyraffishrakishspiffysnappy

双语例句

• It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it
  其制作材料是软木，看起来像是云杉。
• Light to moderate losses of pine and spruce cones are occasionally caused by squirrels.
  松树和云杉球果有时会遭到松鼠为害引起轻度或中等程度的损害。
• Some visitors spend weeks seeking more remote and even more pristine sanctuaries islanded with towering pines and spruce.
  一些游客消磨上数星期的时间在耸立的松树和云杉的小岛上来寻求更多的清净和纯净的庇护。
• But he chose a large spruce tree to land in near the fire, and climbed down.
  但他选择了降落在靠近火灾地的一颗巨大云杉树上，然后从树上爬下来。
• You got a Canadian blue spruce last year.
  你去年买了一棵加拿大蓝云杉。
• The growth of spruce and fir needles is determinate.
  云杉和冷杉的针叶生长是有限的。
• Today spruce and other types of wood remain somewhat popular for aircraft construction.
  今天，云杉和其他类型仍然有点木建筑流行的飞机。
• Two-thirds of the area are covered with immense forests of pine, spruce and birch.
  面积的三分之二由广阔的松林、云杉林和白桦林所覆盖。
• The insects have chewed up4 million acres of spruce trees.
  这些昆虫能吃掉4百万英亩的云杉树。
• Chris was looking spruce in his stiff-collared black shirt and new short hair cut.
  克里斯穿着硬领黑衫，新理了短发，看起来整洁帅气。