spruce
spruce 英 [spru:s] 美 [sprus]
vi. 打扮整齐；使显干净 adj. 整洁的 vt. 打扮整齐
进行时:sprucing 过去式:spruced 过去分词:spruced 第三人称单数:spruces 名词复数:spruces
- Spruce is a verb that means you pay special attention to your personal appearance, especially your grooming and clothing. If you want to spruce up for a wedding, you'll need to rent a tuxedo and do something with your hair.
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- vi. 打扮整齐；使显干净
- adj. 整洁的
- vt. 打扮整齐
- n. 云杉
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1. Soon a dark wall of trees—red spruce, balsam fir, beech, hemlock—surrounds you, and there's a sudden stony persistence.
很快你会被一堵厚厚的树墙包围——红云杉、香脂冷杉、山毛榉和铁杉，这会持续一段时间。
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2. The train was as clean and spruce as I remembered it—the sheets on the bunks immaculately laundered, the windows all decorated with fresh lace curtains and a potted plant.
这辆列车如同我记忆中的那般干净而整洁——铺位上的床单洗得一尘不染，窗户装饰着干净的花边窗帘，旁边还有一盆植物。
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3. The next minute we were climbing into forests of Yunnan pine and spruce that are carpeted with tiny, intensely coloured alpine flowers.
而下一分钟，我们就已经置身于云南松木和云杉的汪洋之中，而那细小的高山花朵更是俯拾皆是。
- spruce (adj.) "neat, smart in dress and appearance, dapper, brisk," 1580s, from spruce leather (mid-15c.; see spruce (n.)), a type of leather imported from Prussia in the 1400s and 1500s which was used in England to make a popular style of jerkin that was considered smart-looking.
- spruce (n.) 1660s, "evergreen tree, fir," from spruse (adj.) "made of spruce wood" (early 15c.), literally "from Prussia," from Spruce, Sprws (late 14c.), unexplained alterations of Pruce "Prussia," from an Old French form of Prussia.
- spruce (v.) "to make trim or neat," 1590s, from spruce (adj.). Related: Spruced; sprucing.
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