strip

1. N-COUNT A strip of something such as paper, cloth, or food is a long, narrow piece of it. (紙、布或食物的) 條

...a new kind of manufactured wood made by pressing strips of wood together and baking them. …一種通過把木條擠壓并烘干而制成的新型人造木材。

The simplest rag-rugs are made with strips of fabric braided together. 這些最簡單的碎布地毯是由織物條編織而成的。

2. N-COUNT A strip of land or water is a long narrow area of it. 狹長 (地帶或水域)

The coastal cities of Liguria sit on narrow strips of land lying under steep mountains. 利古里亞的那些海濱城市坐落在陡峭山脈下的狹長地帶。

3. N-COUNT A strip is a long street in a city or town, where there are a lot of stores, restaurants, and hotels. 商業(yè)街[美國英語]

...Goff's Charcoal Hamburgers on Lover's Lane, a busy commercial strip in North Dallas. …在北達拉斯的一條繁忙的商業(yè)街——“情人巷”上的戈夫炭烤漢堡店。

4. V-I If you strip, you take off your clothes. 脫衣服

They stripped completely, and lay and turned in the damp grass. 他們脫光了衣服，躺在潮濕的草地上翻滾。

5. PHRASAL VERB Strip off means the same as . 脫衣服

The children were brazenly stripping off and leaping into the sea. 這些孩子們那時正無所顧忌地脫掉衣服，跳進海里。

6. V-T If someone is stripped, their clothes are taken off by another person, for example in order to search for hidden or illegal things. 脫掉…的衣服[usu passive]

One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped, and beaten. 一個犯人聲稱他曾被拖進一間牢房，被脫掉衣服毆打。

7. V-T To strip something means to remove everything that covers it. 剝離

After Mike left for work I stripped the beds and vacuumed the carpets. 邁克去上班后，我揭下了床罩并吸了地毯。

8. V-T If you strip an engine or a piece of equipment, you take it to pieces so that it can be cleaned or repaired. 拆卸

Volvo's three-man team stripped the car and treated it to a restoration. 沃爾沃的3人小組拆了那輛汽車并對它進行了修復。

9. V to cut or divide into strips 切成或分成條

10. PHRASAL VERB Strip down means the same as . 拆卸

In five years I had to strip the water pump down four times. 在5年里我不得不拆卸了那個水泵4次。

11. V-T To strip someone of their property, rights, or titles means to take those things away from them. 剝奪 (財產、權利); 撤銷 (頭銜)

The soldiers have stripped the civilians of their passports, and every other type of document. 那些士兵們已經奪走了市民的護照以及所有其他證件。

12. N-COUNT In a newspaper or magazine, a strip is a series of drawings which tell a story. The words spoken by the characters are often written on the drawings. 連環(huán)畫

...the Doonesbury strip. …杜恩斯伯利的連環(huán)畫。

13. N the act or an instance of undressing or of performing a striptease 脫衣; 脫衣舞表演