spruce
spruce1
adjective
sprucely
adverb
spruceness
noun
语源
spruce2
noun
spruce3
verb
sprucer
noun
语源
adjective
- neat in dress and appearance
（衣着或外表）整洁的
he looked as spruce as if he were heading for a meeting with his bank manager.
他穿着整洁，像是要去和银行经理见面一样。
- [with obj.](spruce someone/thing up)make a person or place smarter or tidier
把（人，地方）装扮得更漂亮（更整洁）
the fund will be used to spruce up historic buildings.
这笔资金将用来装扮古建筑。
sprucely
adverb
spruceness
noun
语源
- late 16th cent.: perhaps from spruce in the obsolete sense 'Prussian', in the phrase spruce (leather) jerkin
spruce2
noun
- a widespread coniferous tree which has a distinctive conical shape and hanging cones, widely grown for timber, pulp, and Christmas trees
云杉 - Genus Picea, family Pinaceae: many species
云杉属，松科：多种
- late Middle English (denoting Prussia or something originating in Prussia): alteration of obsolete Pruce 'Prussia'. The application to the tree dates from the early 17th cent
spruce3
verb
- [no obj.](Brit. informal, dated)engage in pretence or deception, especially by feigning illness
(英，非正式，旧)说谎，骗人（尤指装病）
he's no fool; he'd have known if she was sprucing.
他一点也不笨，如果她说谎的话他早就知道了。
■[withobj.]deceive
欺骗
they spruced you proper.
他们完全欺骗了你。
sprucer
noun
语源
- early 20th cent.: of unknown origin
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