单词 | bootlace |
释义 | bootlace From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Clothesbootlaceboot‧lace /ˈbuːtleɪs/ noun [countable usually plural]DCCa long piece of string that you use to fasten a bootExamples from the Corpusbootlace• It had a small, dandyish white shirt with a bootlace tie.• The Mark Hateley of suit and silk tie is a polar opposite to the Mark Hateley of shorts and bootlaces.• He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.• His hands were tightly bound together with what felt like bootlaces.• Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.• The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace, tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving.• Peter ambled after them and joined other fathers who would doubtless have to help with bootlaces. |
随便看 |
英语词典包含170365条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。