| 单词 | fashion |
| 释义 | fash·ion I. 1. a. < do not like the fashion of your garments — Shakespeare > also < the cut of the coat was a fashion of his own > b. archaic 2. a. < expressed himself in a striking fashion > < turn out munitions in wholesale fashion following the outbreak of war — R.L.Buell > < the phonetics of Chinese are introduced in summary fashion in the first weeks — Georgetown University Bulletin > b. < threshing grain after the old fashion > also archaic c. < defending demagogy after his fashion — E.R.Bentley > < Carlyle's bad fashion of ignoring the best forces of his own age — Bliss Perry > d. archaic 3. obsolete 4. a. < there are fashions in kinds of novels and fashions in ways of writing them — Bernard DeVoto > < not even changing fashions in warfare have diminished the island's strategic importance — Franc Shor > < Classicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, were not mere literary fashions — A.L.Guérard > < in six weeks she was the fashion of the town — Willa Cather > < there was a fashion for it some forty years ago as a depressant in cases of mania — Margery Allingham > b. < the fashion in hairdressing of the preceding century > < jewelry and clothing fashions vary with the season > < a high forehead from which swept back thick bronze hair scrupulously trimmed according to the day's fashion — W.J.Locke > < followed the line and general fashion of female court clothes of the day — Anatole Chujoy > also < we tried on the latest fashions today > c. often capitalized < a woman who lets Fashion dictate most of her actions > < as for the peculiar stamp of the scientific thought of an age, we must make due allowance for fashion and the example of leaders — Times Literary Supplement > d. < the captain, who was speaking a few parting words to some passengers of fashion — Winston Churchill > Synonyms: < dressed in the height of fashion > < the gloom of modern writing is no more than a fashion, which will pass as all fashions pass — Douglas Stewart > < one of a group of elegant, narrative biographies which may be setting a modern fashion — Saturday Review > style, often interchangeable with fashion, can suggest the elegant or distinguished way of dressing, behaving, and so on, characteristic of those of taste in a given period < dressed in the current style > < a house in the style of the late 19th century architecture > < the … house … has space, simplicity, style — Lillian Hellman > < a woman of both beauty and style > mode stresses, more than the others, the peak of contemporary fashion especially in dress and behavior, often suggesting a certain transiency < its three bedrooms … all done in the modern mode — Monsanto Magazine > < the romantic landscape of England became a mode accepted without question in Sydney — Bernard Smith > < the rule of taste results in the tyranny of the mode — W.C.Brownell > vogue, when it is not interchangeable with fashion, often puts stress upon obvious popularity and wide acceptance, especially of dress or decoration < when fanciful scrollwork trim, cupolas, and brackets were in vogue — American Guide Series: Arizona > < the fashionable vogue for ultramodern art — Encyc. Americana > < a vogue at the moment of the red ties and red skirts — Frank Gorrell > fad designates a fashion that is usually short lived, and connotes capriciousness in the interest and quick decline of interest shown in it < unconcerned with fads, with whims of the moment — Clifton Fadiman > < a fad is a small fashion in some secondary matter or detail — N.A.Brisco > < whether the long skirts, high necks, pinched waists, padded hips, and bulky hats are here to stay for a while, or are merely a passing fad — Modern Beauty Shop > rage and craze designate a fad adopted with short lived but intense enthusiasm, often implying a certain senselessness < one of the very latest rages — sterling silver charm bracelets that spell out your name — New York Times Magazine > < for part of the Grimaldi period, performing dogs were the rage — Robert Turley > < the current craze for cyclecars — Current Biography > < to satisfy the craze for wild-bird feathers on womens's hats — J.H.Baker > dernier cri, sometimes with the French article le, and the equivalent English cry (as in the phrase all the cry) designate the very latest style, fashion, or fad, especially in art or clothes < women garbed in the dernier cri from Paris — S.J.Perelman > < purporting to be the quintessence of scholarly research, the dernier cri in intelligent social theory and practice — Current History > < the last cry today may be a far cry from that of yesterday > Synonym: see in addition method. • - after a fashion II. transitive verb 1. a. < fashion the clay in the figure of a donkey > < sit once more at the feet of the ancient wisdom and fashion their lives upon the principle that the soul is more than the meat and the body than raiment — V.L.Parrington > < human nature is fashioned to a large extent by surrounding cultural configurations — Bernard Rosenberg > < as intelligent creatures, fashioned by the hand and in the image of an all-wise God — W.F.Hambly > b. < new frontiers were established which fashioned the political and social institutions of the old — W.P.Webb > c. < the teacher fashioned the student into a fine pianist > < the painful metaphysical struggle or religious revolt that fashioned Joyce's soul in youth and first manhood — Sean O'Faolain > < choose a dog specifically designed by nature, and fashioned by man, to hunt — Holiday > d. < fashioned a canoe from a huge pine — R.S.Monahan > < fashion out of paper a representation of the person whom the magician wishes to injure — J.G.Frazer > < well-kept houses of brick fashioned from the red clay — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < each writer had to find or fashion for himself an artistic credo — Max Lerner & Edwin Mims > < his ability to fashion personal triumphs from the most unlikely materials — R.H.Rovere > 2. < she was always fashioned to the subtle, disguising whalebone of common sense — V.S.Pritchett > 3. a. obsolete b. < the subordinate characters are expertly fashioned too — T.C.Chubb > c. obsolete 4. < from these yards was recruited Noah Brown's heroic band who fashioned Commodore Perry's fleet for the Battle of Lake Erie — American Guide Series: New York City > 5. intransitive verb dialect England Synonyms: see make III. obsolete |
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