2008年7月23日 星期三

Braid (續:貿協法 單字大集合)


braid



Y

n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    髮辮,辮子[P1]

          2.    穗帶,鑲邊[U]

                      The uniform was trimmed with gold braid.

                      制服上鑲著金黃色的穗帶。

          3.    辮帶[U]



vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    把(頭髮)編成辮子;把...編成穗帶

                      They wore their hair braided in long pigtails.

                      他們將頭髮梳成一條長辮子。

          2.    (用飾帶等)鑲綴

          3.    編織,編結

                      The girls are busy braiding rugs.

                      姑娘們忙著編織地毯。



D

–verb (used with object) 

1. to weave together strips or strands of; plait: to braid the hair. 

2. to form by such weaving: to braid a rope. 

3. to bind or confine (the hair) with a band, ribbon, etc. 

4. to trim with braid, as a garment.  



–noun 

5. a braided length or plait, esp. of hair. 

6. a hair style formed by interweaving three or more strands of hair. 

7. a narrow, ropelike band formed by plaiting or weaving together several strands of silk, cotton, or other material, used as trimming for garments, drapery, etc. 

8. a band, ribbon, etc., for binding or confining the hair. 



chloe-sevigny-interview-magazine02 Your braid on the show is perfect!





。男性服飾

Argyle



。女性服飾

Meretricious



。鞋

rogue 

brogue 

Taking a breath and resuming his own [Scottish] brogue, he says, "I want to make films like There Will Be Blood, and I want to work with the Coen brothers—and I want them to be like big f***ing epic great films."

galosh

Even though I enjoy Hollywood romantic comedies like "Notting Hill," it's like they wear galoshes compared to the sly wit of a movie like "Autumn Tale."

clunky 

awkwardly heavy or clumsy 

clunky metal [jewelry] 

clunky [shoes]

but onscreen it’s curiously [clunky] and [flat]

so [clunky] is some of his storytelling and direction.

clomp

So to get to the bathroom from living room, you have to clomp through both bedroms?

That vibration you're feeling on the ground, that [telltale] rippling disturbance in your glass, is the clomping arrival of one of 2011's (presumed) Oscar [behemoths], Clint Eastwood's biopic of FBI man J Edgar Hoover called J Edgar.

moccasin

black moccasins, mauve socks, and a fresh pair of jockey pants in case of assassination. 鹿皮軟鞋



cobble

But the most [cringe]-inducing aspects of these [book]-ending scenes are the broad flyboy characters and their [stilted] dialogue cobbled [together] from every clichéd idea about the Vietnam War. 大卵石,圓石

cobbler

I'm going to bring cobbler to her and all of girls.【美】脆皮面水果派



What are you doing?



Cobbling. I really want to be that dad that knows how to make stuff out of wood. You know? I just want our kid to wake up in the morning and walk out on the back porch and find me cobbling.



You know, that's not what it's called.



Yeah, it is.



Burt, cobbling is shoes. That's why the people that make shoes are called cobblers. You're not cobbling, you're carving. Or possibly whittling.



。帽

boater 

Day-Lewis—an [ambling] scarecrow under boater and musty cloth coat

fedora

With his dark fedora, cape and eyemask, boldly [ac]centuated by a blood-red necktie

should reach for their [fedoras], turn up the collars of their [coats], and [sneak] to this picture through a mist of rain.

see: Indy [donning] the fedora, the quick sand scene, Indy [snatching] the fedora from Mutt, etc.

cloche 

her mask of tragedy suggesting a skull costumed for Halloween in a [cloche] hat and ghoulishly kissable wax red lips.

when ruby-lipped women wore long coats and [cloche] hats, and cars were square-backed, dark, and dignified, Clint Eastwood's new movie, "Changeling," is calm and smooth.

bonnet

Ever wear a bonnet? Give it a try sometime.

sombrero

Hell, if you pull this off, I'll even buy you a sombrero. 墨西哥帽

And then he said that he found Denton's car filled with all these strange disguises. A powdered wig, a sombrero, leotards. I mean, what the fuck does that mean, you know?

fez

Had a weight under his fez. 土耳其氈帽

beanie

Post-prison, Rhoda takes a job as a [janitor], her golden [locks] trailing out from under a gray [beanie], blowing her cover as an anonymous [plebe]. 室內無邊便帽 (通常顏色鮮艷, 尤指婦女與小孩戴者)

turban

I think that hat would look good on you. it's a turban. (回教男子的) 纏頭巾,女用頭巾

chapeau

I hit that thing dead-on! Yet he still retains his chapeau.

balaclava

It's real! A girl, tied to a chair, being beaten by a guy wearing a balaclava.



。髮型

mane

A ravaged [steroid] hulk with a stringy blond [mane] and a head full of Mötley Crüe,

James Franco, is tall and slender, with an angel face and a curly brown [mane].

Lord Summerisle identifies himself with the sun god when he shows up in a bright yellow sweater with his hair [teased] into a [leonine] mane.

toupee

Wearing a waved salt-and-pepper [toupee] 

bigwig

wig

The teacher wigged him [for] absent-mindedness.

Mol's fetchingly [bewigged] Bettie is a simple country girl,

braid 

tresses

wisp

A [wisp] of gray hair stuck out from under her hat.

and he's set the [wisp]-waif to star in his upcoming sci-fi thriller Never Let Me Go.

pompadour

sideburns

coiff

For her part, as [coiffed] here, Hall looks quite like Carly Simon.

so that Anne's leaky sink or her bowl of goldfish or her unkempt [coiffure] can become objects demanding attention. 

for every light-skinned, affluent sorority girl affecting blue contact lenses, there's a darker-skinned, poorer, less artificially [coiffed] classmate who bitterly [resents] such aspirations.

coiffure

With its clean aisles and sans-serif elegance, SavMart looks more like a socialist wundermall than an [indictment] of capitalist [de]humanization, and Nielsen and Vartan's [never]ending parade of runway-ready coiffures seem tailor-made to their Deepak Chopra-inspired homilies (which, by the way, are treated with reverence).

curler


Actress/writer/director Barbara Loden's [deceptively] passive Wanda seems to be a lost soul, as she wanders through coal yards in her [curlers], yet she gets a divorce and strikes out on her own, ending up with Michael Higgins' criminal Dennis.

perm

Aronofsky dotes on the details of the Ram's routine (securing meds, getting a [perm], visiting the tanning [parlor]), 

Now, don't you ask her to give you a perm or braids or anything, but with nails, she's the best.

shaggy

this is really a shaggy [devil] story

parka

The army navy store moved a lot more parkas and knit caps. (愛斯基摩人之) 有頭套的毛皮外套

Um, I met this guy in Canberra. He has this store thing selling parkas and stuff, and he told me to call him about a job.



alopecia

And you thought,"I know what kids love alopecia awareness parties." 禿頭症

















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