cuff
cuff 英 [kʌf] 美 [kʌf]
n. 袖口，裤子翻边；手铐；一巴掌 vt. 给…上袖口；用巴掌打；给…带上手铐 vi. 殴斗，拳击
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- A cuff is the very end of a long sleeve or the rolled bottom of your jeans. You might prefer to wear a cuff on the bottom of your pants in order to show off your striped socks.
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- n. 袖口，裤子翻边；手铐；一巴掌
- vt. 给…上袖口；用巴掌打；给…带上手铐
- vi. 殴斗，拳击
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1. So, he designed a cuff that allows the medical professionals to get the blood while keeping that business out of sight and out of mind.
所以，他设计了一种袖口，在不影响医务人员采血的同时，避免捐献者看到发生的一切，不去想它。
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2. “It's good to have a bit of Brunel on your cuff and it creates interest – otherwise a cufflink can just seem like a bit of gloss,” says creative director Paul Brooking.
“最好在你的袖口上加点布鲁内尔大学的设计元素，这会增加趣味——否则，一个袖扣看上去可能仅仅是一个闪光的东西，” 创意总监保罗?
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3. A silver Rolex peeks out from under his cuff, and a vertical strip of white soul patch drops down from his lower lip like an exclamation mark.
一款银色的劳力士从他的袖口里微微露出来，一小撮白色胡须从下唇垂落，看起来像个感叹号。
- cuff (n.) "bottom of a sleeve," mid-14c., cuffe "hand covering, mitten, glove," perhaps somehow from Medieval Latin cuffia "head covering," which is of uncertain origin. Sense of "band around the sleeve" is first attested 1520s; sense of "hem of trousers" is 1911. Off the cuff "extemporaneously" is 1938 American English colloquial, suggesting an actor or speaker reading from notes jotted on his shirt sleeves rather than learned lines. Cuff links is from 1897.
- cuff (v.1) "to put a cuff on," 1690s, from cuff (n.). Related: Cuffed; cuffing.
- cuff (v.2) "hit," 1520s, of unknown origin, perhaps from Swedish kuffa "to thrust, push." Related: Cuffed; cuffing. As a noun from 1560s.
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