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单词 strip
释义
strip
(strɪp )
Word forms: strips , stripping , stripped
1. countable noun
A strip of something such as paper, cloth, or food is a long, narrow piece of it.
...a new kind of manufactured wood made by pressing strips of wood together and baking them. [+ of]
The simplest rag-rugs are made with strips of fabric plaited together.
Serve dish with strips of fresh raw vegetables. [+ of]
Synonyms: piece, shred, bit, band  
2. countable noun
A strip of land or water is a long narrow area of it.
The coastal cities of Liguria sit on narrow strips of land lying under steep mountains. [+ of]
...a short boat ride across a narrow strip of water. [+ of]
Synonyms: stretch, area, tract, expanse  
3. countable noun
A strip is a long street in a city or town, where there are a lot of stores, restaurants, and hotels. [US]
She owns a hotel-restaurant in the commercial strip on the mainland.
4. verb
If you strip, you take off your clothes.
They stripped completely, and lay in the damp grass. [VERB]
The residents stripped naked in protest. [VERB adjective]
Synonyms: undress, disrobe, expose yourself, take your clothes off  
Strip off means the same as strip.
The children were brazenly stripping off and leaping into the sea. [VERB PARTICLE]
5. verb [usually passive]
If someone is stripped, their clothes are taken off by another person, for example in order to search for hidden or illegal things.
One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten. [be VERB-ed]
6.  See also strip-search
7. verb
To strip something means to remove everything that covers it.
After Mike left for work I stripped the beds and vacuumed the carpets. [VERB noun]
The floorboards in both this room and the dining room have been stripped, sanded and sealed. [be VERB-ed]
Synonyms: peel, clean, clear, rub  
8. verb
If you strip an engine or a piece of equipment, you take it to pieces so that it can be cleaned or repaired.
Volvo's three-man team stripped the car and restored it. [VERB noun]
Strip down means the same as strip.
In five years I had to strip the water pump down four times. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
I stripped down the carburettors, cleaned and polished the pieces and rebuilt the units. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
9. verb
To strip someone of their property, rights, or titles means to take those things away from them.
The soldiers have stripped the civilians of their passports, and every other type of document. [V n of n]
A senior official was stripped of all his privileges for publicly criticising his employer. [be VERB-ed + of]
[Also V n + of]
Synonyms: plunder, rob, loot, empty  
10. countable noun
In a newspaper or magazine, a strip is a series of drawings which tell a story. The words spoken by the characters are often written on the drawings. [US]
...the Doonesbury strip.
11.  See also landing strip
12. to tear a strip off phrase [VERB inflects]
If you tear a strip off someone or if you tear them off a strip, you speak to them angrily and criticize them severely. [British, informal]
He heard Nora tearing a strip off an orderly for not returning the food bins to the kitchen soon enough.
The police arrived to tear him off a strip.
Phrasal verbs:
strip away
1. phrasal verb
To strip away something, especially something that hides the true nature of a thing, means to remove it completely.
Altman strips away the pretence to expose the film industry as a business like any other. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verb
To strip away a layer of something means to remove it completely.
Sensitive Cream will not strip away the skin's protective layer. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
She'd managed to strip the bloodied rags away from Nellie's body. [V n P + from]
strip down strip [sense 8]
strip off
1. phrasal verb
If you strip off your clothes, you take them off.
He stripped off his wet clothes and stepped into the shower. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
2.  See also strip [sense 4]
Idioms:
tear a strip off someone or tear someone off a strip
to speak angrily or seriously to someone because they have done something wrong
We were sent to the headmaster's office and he tore strips off both of us.
Collocations:
strip a tree
Don't strip the tree entirely or there won't be elderberries later in the year.
Times, Sunday Times
So to the city's busy, patchwork habitat now comes autumn: slowing the grass, stripping the trees and preparing plants for winter's long sleep.
Times, Sunday Times
The goats are lured more than ten metres off the ground by the fleshy, olive-like fruit, stripping the trees bare in the process.
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strip of wood
The stone lintel of the door has disappeared and has been replaced with a strip of wood.
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But if you hate draughts, fill with glued-in strips of wood, not filler, which dries out and drops through the holes.
Times, Sunday Times
In some places the countryside has become stripped of woods.
Times, Sunday Times
They are distinguished by an almond-shaped body with a bowled back constructed from curved strips of wood along its length.
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thick strip
If using peppers from a jar, drain well and cut into thick strips.
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Cut the meat (and layers of fat) in thick strips and then into small cubes or short, thin strips.
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Drain the peppers, tear into thick strips and add to the onions and garlic.
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Remove the skin from the peppers and cut the flesh into thick strips.
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thin strip
Especially tall soldiers from either side stood eyeball to eyeball — a thin strip of concrete between them serving to delineate the division of their country.
Times, Sunday Times
A thin strip of hair seemed to have disappeared.
The Sun
With nowhere else to go, the migrants spill over into the thin strip of grass between the sea and the coastal road.
Times, Sunday Times
Damage and destruction caused by the depression was confined to a thin strip where the tropical depression had passed.
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Cut the meat (and layers of fat) in thick strips and then into small cubes or short, thin strips.
Times, Sunday Times
vertical strip
If the color burst signal were visible on a television screen, it would appear as a vertical strip of a very dark olive color.
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They identified the brain's motor strip, a vertical strip of brain tissue on the cerebrum in the back of the frontal lobe, which controls different muscles in the body.
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However, documents cut into vertical strips using a linear shredder are easy for criminals to reassemble.
Times, Sunday Times
The head of school had two short vertical strips located just above the crossed band paths and his deputy had one.
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The coat, belt, leggings and loincloth were constructed of vertical strips of leather sewn together with sinew.
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wide strip
An 8-foot (2 m) wide strip of concrete would be left for use as a public trail.
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The resulting images take the form of a wide strip.
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The demands for a 50 m wide strip of free space along the riverfront was also pursued.
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With strip cropping, the trees or shrubs are planted in wide strip.
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The service dress tunic also features a wide strip of gold braid around the cuff.
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Translations:
Chinese: , 剥去
Japanese: ストリップ, はぐ
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