fashion

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈfæʃn̩/    /ˈfæʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. countable
    — The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
  2. Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items. uncountable
    — Check out the latest in fashion.
  3. A style or manner in which something is done. countable
    — the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
  4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution. countable,uncountable
    — I do not like the fashion of your garments.
  5. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding. countable,dated,uncountable
    — men of fashion
动词 v.
  1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
    — 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
  2. To make in a standard manner; to work. dated
    — Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
  3. To fit, adapt, or accommodate to. dated
    — Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.
  4. To forge or counterfeit. obsolete
    — Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet.

词形变化

fashions plural fascion alternative,obsolete fashions present,singular,third-person fashioning participle,present fashioned participle,past fashioned past fascion alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.
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