attire

英 [ə'taɪə(r)] 美 [ə'taɪər]

• n. 服装；盛装
• v. 穿衣；打扮

英英释义

Noun:

1. clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion;

   "formal attire"
   "battle dress"
   

Verb:

1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive;

   "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"
   "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. They imposed through their magnifcent attire.
   他们靠华丽的服装来行骗。
2. Her attention was attracted by his peculiar attire.
   他那奇特的服装引起了她的注意。
3. The boys and girls go to the dance in elegant attire, and dance away the evening to the music of a live band.
   男孩们和女孩们都身着盛装去参加舞会，随着乐队的现场伴奏翩翩起舞，度过一个美好的夜晚。
4. During the long-held tradition of Las Fallas, many participants don medieval attire.
   许多参与者在法雅节期间穿上中世纪的盛装是长期以来传统。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Nor was he dressed himself like a bridegroom, but in strange disordered attire.
   他自己打扮得也不象个新郎，身上穿得邋里邋遢的。
2. Her eyes, however, betrayed that perfect confidence which contradicted the girlish simplicity of this modest attire.
   她的打扮虽然显得纯洁高尚，她眼睛里却流露出一种与之相反的傲慢神气。

经典引文

• And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday?

  出自：Julius Caesar , Shakespeare

• Her attire of subdued mourning indicated widowhood.

  出自： G. Gissing

• He had eaten, dressedsnot in English clothes but in his normal Hindu attire.

  出自： V. S. Naipaul

• Earth in her rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd.

  出自： fig.

• His shoulders large a mantle did attire.

  出自： Dryden

• I was..attired as a Sahib.

  出自： R. Kipling

• Nattily attired in the correct town-dress of a gentleman of fashion.

  出自： G. Heyer

• The rose and the apple blossom are both beautiful, and the plants that bear them are most engagingly attired.

  出自： fig.

词汇搭配

• formal attire 礼服
• night attire 睡衣

近反义词

【近义词】

• dress 服装
• garb 打扮
• clothes 服装
• apparel 衣服
• clothing (总称)衣服
• array 一系列
• adorn 装饰
• outfit 配备
• wear 磨损
• costume 服装
• wardrobe 衣橱，衣柜
• robe 长袍
• guise 装束
• clothe 穿上
• vest 背心
• trick out 装饰
• fig out 打扮, 穿上盛装...
• get up 起床
• rig out 装扮
• trick up 装饰
• overdress （使）过度打扮...
• fig up 打扮, 使马跑快...
• fancy up 装饰
• prink 化妆
• dress up 穿上盛装
• deck up 装饰
• deck out 打扮
• gussy up 精心打扮