tease
tease 英 [ti:z] 美 [tiz]
vt. 戏弄;挑逗;梳理 n. 戏弄
进行时:teasing 过去式:teased 过去分词:teased 第三人称单数:teases 名词复数:teases
- To tease is to pick on someone or to give false hope. You can tease your little sister by saying "nanny nanny boo boo" or by holding a cookie just out of her reach.
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- vt. 戏弄;挑逗;梳理
- n. 戏弄
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1. I tease her.
我取笑他。
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2. Don't get upset—I was only teasing.
别不高兴,我只是在逗你玩。
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3. I used to get teased about my name.
过去别人总拿我的名字开玩笑。
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4. to tease wool into strands
把羊毛梳成缕
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5. The teacher helped them tease out the meaning of the poem.
老师帮助他们弄清楚那首诗的含义。
- tease (n.) 1690s, "act of teasing," from tease (v.). Meaning "one who teases" is from 1852. Specifically as short for cock-teaser, it was in use by 1976.
- tease (v.) formerly also teaze, Old English tæsan "pluck, pull, tear; pull apart, comb" (fibers of wool, flax, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *taisijan (source also of Danish tæse, Middle Dutch tesen, Dutch tezen "to draw, pull, scratch," Old High German zeisan "to tease, pick wool").
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