fleece
fleece 英 [fli:s] 美 [flis]
n. 羊毛，绒头织物；羊毛制的覆盖物 vt. 剪下羊毛；欺诈，剥削
进行时:fleecing 过去式:fleeced 过去分词:fleeced 第三人称单数:fleeces 名词复数:fleeces
- A fleece is a sheep's coat. Or a goat's. Or a yak's. A person's coat can be called a fleece, too, if it comes from a sheep or goat or a yak or even if it just looks like it did.
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- n. 羊毛，绒头织物；羊毛制的覆盖物
- vt. 剪下羊毛；欺诈，剥削
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1. Often, you will only need this in the coldest weather, when the fleece adds extra insulation between your base layer and your outer layer.
通常你只在最冷的日子才需要穿上这一层衣物，羊毛会在你的内衣和外套之间建立一个额外的隔绝层。
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2. The shearer and his helpers clipped the fleece and someone else put it in the wool press to be baled.
剪羊毛的人和他的助手们把羊毛剪下来，另外的人把羊毛放进羊毛压缩机扎成包。
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3. That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.
这夜神也如此行，独羊毛上是干的，别的地方都有露水。
- fleece (n.) "wool coat of a sheep," Old English fleos, flies "fleece, wool, fur, sealskin," from West Germanic *flusaz (source also of Middle Dutch vluus, Dutch vlies, Middle High German vlius, German Vlies), which is of uncertain origin; probably from PIE *pleus- "to pluck," also "a feather, fleece" (source also of Latin pluma "feather, down," Lithuanian plunksna "feather").
- fleece (v.) 1530s in the literal sense of "to strip (a sheep) of fleece," from fleece (n.). From 1570s in the figurative meaning "to cheat, swindle, strip of money." Related: Fleeced; fleecer; fleecing.
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