shrink-wrap
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
— Please order another five rolls of shrink-wrap from the supply house.
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The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
— Please don't damage the shrink-wrap when you are boxing up the items for shipment.
动词 v.
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To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
— We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.
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To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.
— Such shrink-wrapped models gave generations of schoolchildren mental images of dinosaurs that are probably much uglier and scrawnier than the creatures were in reality.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From shrink + wrap.
词源 2
From shrink + wrap.
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