groom
groom 英 [gru:m] 美 [ɡrum, ɡrʊm]
vt. 刷洗；梳毛；培训 n. 新郎；马夫；
进行时:grooming 过去式:groomed 过去分词:groomed 第三人称单数:grooms 名词复数:grooms
- To groom means to take care of the appearance, whether it's plucking eyebrows or combing hair. When you spend over an hour grooming in the bathroom, combing your mustache and buffing your nails, you drive everyone else who needs to use the bathroom crazy.
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- vt. 刷洗；梳毛；培训
- n. 新郎；马夫；
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1. Let's drink to the bride and groom.
让我们为新郎新娘干杯。
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2. Bride and groom.
新娘和新郎。
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3. to groom a horse/dog/cat
刷洗马╱狗╱猫
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4. The horses are all well fed and groomed.
这些马都喂得饱饱的，刷洗得干干净净。
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5. Our junior employees are being groomed for more senior roles.
我们的初级雇员正在接受培训以承担更重要的职责。
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6. The eldest son is being groomed to take over when his father dies.
长子正在接受培养，以在父亲过世后接手父业。
- groom (n.1) c. 1200 (late 12c. in surnames), grome "male child, boy;" c. 1300, "a youth, young man," also "male servant, attendant, minor officer in a royal or noble household ranking higher than a page; a knight's squire." Of unknown origin; no certain cognates in other Germanic languages. Perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *grom, *groma, which could be related to growan "to grow," and influenced by guma "man." Or perhaps from or influenced by Old French grommet "boy, young man in service, serving-man" (compare Middle English gromet "ship's boy," early 13c.). As the title of an officer of the English royal house from mid-15c. Specific meaning "male servant who attends to horses and stables" is from 1660s, from earlier combinations such as horse-groom, Groom of the Stables, etc.
- groom (n.2) "husband-to-be at a wedding; newly married man," c. 1600 (usually as a correlative of bride), short for bridegroom (q.v.), in which the second element is Old English guma "man."
- groom (v.) "tend or care for; curry and feed," 1809, from groom (n.1) in its secondary sense of "male servant who attends to horses." Transferred sense of "to tidy (oneself) up" is from 1843; figurative sense of "to prepare a candidate" is from 1887, originally in U.S. politics. Related: Groomed; grooming.
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