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单词 envelope
释义
envelope
(envəloʊp , ɒn- )
Word forms: envelopes
1. countable noun A2
An envelope is the rectangular paper cover in which you send a letter to someone through the post.
Synonyms: wrapping, casing, case, covering  
2. push the envelope phrase
If someone pushes the envelope, they do something to a greater degree or in a more extreme way than it has ever been done before.
There's a valuable place for fashion and design that pushes the envelope a bit.
The cinema director pushed the envelope of acceptable family entertainment.
Image of envelope
Idioms:
push the envelope
to do something to a greater degree or in a more extreme way than it has ever been done before
Each time they flew faster or higher, they regarded that as pushing the envelope.
on the back of an envelope
quickly and without enough thought or planning
But the screenplay sounds as if it has been written on the back of an envelope and the whole thing has an improvised air about it.
Collocations:
brown envelope
The fines and the receipts come in almost identical brown envelopes and they just slipped through the net.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He was stunned to be asked by an aide for 'a brown envelope with $500' to secure the meeting.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Those were the days when people would pull out their pay slip from little brown envelopes and compare each other's earnings and deductions.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
envelope of money
Then, he sneakily hides an envelope of money in the pram.
The Sun
He used to keep an envelope of money behind the bar and would settle up his bills from this.
Times, Sunday Times
This touched her heart and the next day she gave him an envelope of money, which he reluctantly accepts.
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Telephones rang opportunely with offers of help, and envelopes of money were posted through her door.
Times,Sunday Times
He'd sent her disturbing fan letters and envelopes of money, instructing her to buy herself a birthday present.
Times, Sunday Times
fat envelope
Then she left, carrying a big, fat envelope full of money.
Times, Sunday Times
Fat envelopes and even fatter emails go to and fro.
Times, Sunday Times
I put in the orders, and now fat envelopes stuffed with seed packets are plopping onto the doormat.
Times, Sunday Times
paper envelope
Yep: a plastic bottle or even a paper envelope will do, as the water keeps the material below ignition point.
Times, Sunday Times
Spoon into the paper envelope and fold the remaining edge over to enclose.
Times, Sunday Times
We accompanied our cabinet document with a huge paper envelope stamped with the flag, containing examples of our proposals.
Globe and Mail
Botanists collect moss, store in a paper envelope and bring it back to life at will.
Times, Sunday Times
Together these are sometimes referred to as the envelope addressing, by analogy with a traditional paper envelope.
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seal an envelope
Folder inserters take paper, fold it, insert it into an envelope and seal the envelope.
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And when, in the morning, you were sealing the envelope, remorse set in.
Times, Sunday Times
She sealed the envelope and instructed the church to not open the secret until 1960.
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sealed envelope
So she left a second safety plan in a sealed envelope with her neighbor.
Christianity Today (2000)
To this day the name of the donor remains in a sealed envelope.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I was given a sealed envelope to hand in at the time of my appointment.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He said the cheque had been given to him in a sealed envelope and he did not consider he had committed any offence.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
stuff envelopes
This takes ministry to a far deeper level than recruiting volunteers to stuff envelopes or refurbish the facility.
Christianity Today
You may not have the time or inclination to stuff envelopes and knock on doors.
Times, Sunday Times
At a long trestle table, a group of party workers stuff envelopes.
Times, Sunday Times
In any case, whether you stay to stuff envelopes in the leadership election or not, the rest of us are at least entitled to a period of silence.
Times, Sunday Times
Then there are those who volunteer to help in our secondhand store, answer the phone, stuff envelopes, clean the church, or serve as officers and elders.
Christianity Today
Translations:
Chinese: 信封
Japanese: 封筒
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