chap
chap 英 [tʃæp] 美 [tʃæp]
n. 小伙子；家伙；龟裂 vt. 使皲裂 vi. 皲裂
进行时:chapping 过去式:chapped 过去分词:chapped 第三人称单数:chaps 名词复数:chaps
- A chap is a guy or a fellow — a boy or man who's a friend, acquaintance, or a friendly stranger. You might ask a chap on the bus if the seat beside him is free.
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- n. 小伙子；家伙；龟裂
- vt. 使皲裂
- vi. 皲裂
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1. A person's lips and hands often chap in winter.
人的嘴唇和手在冬天常常皲裂。
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2. Your boss won't be looking at their chinos and thinking: great trousers, great chap, I want to promote him.
你的老板不会看着他们的斜纹棉布裤想：很不错的裤子，很不错的小伙子，我想升他的职。
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3. He followed the chap, and again asked, "Are you sure youre all right?
他跟在那家伙的后面，又一次问道：“你肯定你没事？
- chap (n.) 1570s, "customer," short for obsolete chapman in its secondary sense "purchaser, trader" (also see cheap). Colloquial familiar sense of "lad, fellow, man or boy" is first attested 1716, usually with a qualifying adjective. Compare slang (tough) customer and German Knude "customer, purchaser," colloquially "fellow."
- chap (v.) "to crack open in fissures," mid-15c., chappen (intransitive) "to split, burst open in fissures;" "cause to split or crack" (transitive); perhaps a variant of choppen (see chop (v.), and compare strap/strop), or related to Middle Dutch kappen "to chop, cut," Danish kappe, Swedish kappa "to cut."
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