dress down

英 [dres daʊn]

美 [dres daʊn]

（比平时）穿着随便

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (比平时)穿着随便
  If youdress down, you wear clothes that are less smart than usual.
  1. She dresses down in baggy clothes to avoid hordes of admirers.
     她随便穿了件宽松的衣服以免被大批的粉丝认出。
• See also:Campbell dressed them down in public.dressing-down

英英释义

verb

• dress informally and casually
  1. On Fridays, employees can underdress
  Synonym:underdress
• censure severely or angrily
  1. The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  2. The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  3. The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
  Synonym:call on the carpettake to taskrebukeragtrouncereprooflecturereprimandjawcall downscoldchideberatebawl outremonstratechew outchew uphave wordslambastelambast

双语例句

• She leapt from the car, hitched up her dress and sprinted down the road after him
  她从车上跳下来，提起连衣裙，对他一路紧追不放。
• Can you make the dress down for her young sister?
  你能把衣服改小给她妹妹穿吗？
• The Gym teacher, Coach Clapp, found me a uniform but didn't make me dress down for today's class.
  体育课老师克拉普教练给我找了件运动服，但没让我在这堂课就换上。
• Campbell dressed them down in public.
  坎贝尔当众训斥了他们。
• This is never more apparent than on "dress& down days", when what you wear can say more about you than any business suit ever could.
  这种“以衣度人”的态度在“便装日”表现得更为明显，这时你的穿着比任何商务套装都更能说明你的一切。
• She liked the dress that buttons down the back.
  她喜欢从背部扣纽扣的女装。
• This dress buttons down the front, but that one down the back.
  这件衣服的钮扣是扣在前面的，但那一件是扣后面。
• Her cotton dress had ripped down the front.
  她的棉布连衣裙前面都扯裂了。
• Help me to dress the dog down so that it would look nice.
  帮我把狗洗洗，让人看上去舒服。
• Harman, who like Hillary Clinton favours trouser suits, has advocated dress-down days in the house of Commons, though last weekend she described Conservative Party policies as "back to basics with an open-necked shirt".
  与希拉里克林顿一样钟情裤装的哈曼，在下议院里推崇简约的着装风格，不过上周末她描述保守党的政策是，“回到开襟衬衫那种反璞归真的状态”。