fray
fray 英 [freɪ] 美 [fre]
n. 争论；打架；磨损处 vt. 使磨损；变得令人紧张、急躁 vi. 被磨损
进行时:fraying 过去式:frayed 过去分词:frayed 第三人称单数:frays 名词复数:frays
- Fray is all about friction––a frayed rope has been rubbed so much its fibers are wearing away. People experiencing friction––fighting loudly––are involved in a fray.
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- n. 争论；打架；磨损处
- vt. 使磨损；变得令人紧张、急躁
- vi. 被磨损
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1. Confrontation without prayer is like barging into the middle of the fray with no preparation.
没有祈祷得面对，就像闯入到没有准备的争论中。
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2. Flickering in and out of the fray are the two presidential candidates, whose campaigns have become the playthings of forces over which they have no control.
两位候选人的争论持续不休，而他们的竞选活动已经变成只是随便应付那些在他们无法控制之领域里所产生的影响。
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3. Once he posed as standing above the electoral fray, but he has now firmly come down on the side of repression and electoral fraud.
他一度超脱于选举争论之外，但是他已经坚定地降下身段站在镇压与舞弊的选举一边。
- fray (n.) mid-14c., "feeling of alarm," shortening of affray (q.v.; see also afraid). Meaning "a brawl, a fight" is from early 15c. (late 14c. in Anglo-Latin). Fraymaker "fighter, brawler" is found in a 1530s statute recorded by Prynne ("Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes," 1643). Nares' "Glossary" has frayment (1540s).
- fray (v.) "wear off by rubbing," c. 1400, from Old French fraiier, froiier "to rub against, scrape; thrust against" (also in reference to copulation), from Latin fricare "to rub, rub down" (see friction). Intransitive sense "to ravel out" (of fabric, etc.) is from 1721. The noun meaning "a frayed place in a garment" is from 1620s. Related: Frayed; fraying.
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