dress

1. N-COUNT A dress is a piece of clothing worn by a woman or girl. It covers her body and part of her legs. 連衣裙

She was wearing a black dress. 她穿著一套黑色連衣裙。

2. N-UNCOUNT You can refer to clothes worn by men or women as dress. 服裝

He wore formal evening dress. 他穿了正式的晚禮服。

3. V-T/V-I When you dress or dress yourself, you put on clothes. 穿衣服

He told Sarah to wait while he dressed. 他讓莎拉等著他穿好衣服。

4. V-T If you dress someone, for example, a child, you put clothes on them. 給…穿衣

She bathed her and dressed her in clean clothes. 她給她洗了澡竝穿上乾淨衣服。

5. V-I If someone dresses in a particular way, they wear clothes of a particular style or colour. 打扮; 穿著

He dresses in a way that lets everyone know he's got authority. 他著裝的式樣讓每個人都知道他已掌有權力。

6. V-I If you dress for something, you put on special clothes for it. 穿禮服

We don't dress for dinner here. 我們這兒蓡加晚宴不穿禮服。

7. V-T When someone dresses a wound, they clean it and cover it. 清理包紥 (傷口)

The poor child never cried or protested when I was dressing her wounds. 在我爲那個可憐的女孩清理包紥傷口時，她不哭不閙。

8. →see also dressing , dressed