brush

• n. 刷子；画笔；毛笔；争吵；与某人有效冲突；灌木丛地带；矮树丛；狐狸尾巴
• vt. 刷；画；
• vi. 刷；擦过；掠过；（经过时）轻触

词源同bristle, 刺毛，broom, 金雀花，扫帚。指用灌木枝扎的刷子。

1. a dense growth of bushes

2. an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

3. momentary contact

4. conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

5. a minor short-term fight

6. the act of brushing your teeth;

"the dentist recommended two brushes a day"

7. the act of brushing your hair;

"he gave his hair a quick brush"

8. contact with something dangerous or undesirable;

"I had a brush with danger on my way to work"

"he tried to avoid any brushes with the police"

brush

brush: [14] It is not clear whether brush for sweeping and brush as in brushwood are the same word, although both appeared in the language at about the same time, from a French source. Brush ‘broken branches’ comes from brousse, the Anglo-Norman version of Old French broce, which goes back to an unrecorded Vulgar Latin *bruscia. Brush for sweeping, on the other hand, comes from Old French broisse or brosse.

It is tempting to conclude that this is a variant of Old French broce, particularly in view of the plausible semantic link that brushwood (cut twigs, etc) bundled together and tied to a handle makes a serviceable brush (that is how broom came to mean ‘brush’). The verb brush ‘move fast or heedlessly’ comes from Old French brosser ‘dash through undergrowth’, a derivative of broce; its frequent modern connotation of ‘touching in passing’ comes from the other brush.

brush (v.1)

late 15c., "to clean or rub (clothing) with a brush," also (mid-15c.) "to beat with a brush," from brush (n.1). Related: Brushed; brushing. To brush off someone or something, "rebuff, dismiss," is from 1941.

brush (n.1)

"dust-sweeper, a brush for sweeping," late 14c., also, c. 1400, "brushwood, brushes;" from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse) "a brush" (13c.), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bruscia "a bunch of new shoots" (used to sweep away dust), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz "underbrush."

brush (n.2)

"shrubbery," early 14c., from Anglo-French bruce "brushwood," Old North French broche, Old French broce "bush, thicket, undergrowth" (12c., Modern French brosse), from Gallo-Roman *brocia, perhaps from *brucus "heather," or possibly from the same source as brush (n.1).

brush (v.2)

"move briskly" especially past or against something or someone, 1670s, from earlier sense (c. 1400) "to hasten, rush," probably from brush (n.2), on the notion of a horse, etc., passing through dense undergrowth (compare Old French brosser "travel (through woods)," and Middle English noun brush "charge, onslaught, encounter," mid-14c.), but brush (n.1) probably has contributed something to it as well. Related: Brushed; brushing.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Benjamin Franklin produced some of his best writings at the age of 84, and Pablo Picasso put brush to canvas right through his eighties.

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Our customers come in and enjoy their food and drinks, while little rabbits play about and brush against their legs.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Benjamin would have real brushes soon.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one.

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He cut some fur from the family cat to make a brush.

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I would excitedly turn the tap on and brush the comb carefully.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 完形填空 原文

In those days, a brush was made from camel's hair.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The brush did not last long.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

These were the first pictures and first real paint and brushes Benjamin had ever seen.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

When choosing everyday products such as toothpaste, we appreciate a cool-looking device that allows us to easily squeeze the toothpaste onto our brush.

2016年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

When he went home, he sent Benjamin a box of paint and some brushes.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

When parents bring home a pet, their child gladly bathes it and brushes its fur.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

The state's proposed Forest Carbon Plan aims to double efforts to thin out young trees and clear brush in parts of the forest.

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a paintbrush

画笔

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a hairbrush

发刷

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a toothbrush

牙刷

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brush strokes (= the marks left by a brush when painting)

画笔的笔触

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a dustpan and brush

簸箕和刷子

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Apply the paint with a fine brush.

用细画笔涂颜料。

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to give your teeth a good brush

好好刷一刷牙

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the brush of his lips on her cheek

他的嘴唇在她脸上的轻轻一碰

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She had a nasty brush with her boss this morning.

她今天早晨和老板闹得挺别扭的。

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In his job he's had frequent brushes with death.

他在工作中常常与死神擦肩而过。

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a brush with the law

轻微的触犯法律

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a brush fire

灌木丛火

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to brush your hair/teeth/shoes

刷头发 / 牙 / 鞋

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We gave him paint and brushes...

我们给了他油漆和几把刷子。

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Stains are removed with buckets of soapy water and scrubbing brushes.

污渍是用几桶肥皂水和几把硬毛刷除去的。

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Have you brushed your teeth?...

你刷牙了吗？

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She brushed the powder out of her hair...

她把头发上的粉末刷掉了。

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Take a sheet of filo pastry and brush it with melted butter.

取一张擀得很薄的油酥面皮，上面刷上一层熔化的牛油。

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He brushed his hair back with both hands...

他用两手把头发往后捋。

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She brushed away tears as she spoke of him...

谈到他时，她拭去了脸上的泪水。

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Something brushed against her leg...

有什么东西扫了一下她的腿。

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I felt her dark brown hair brushing the back of my shoulder...

我感觉到她深褐色的头发拂过我的肩。

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My father would burst into the kitchen, brushing past my mother...

我父亲会紧贴着母亲擦身而过，冲进厨房。

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He brushed by with a perfunctory wave to the crowd.

他擦身而过，朝人群敷衍地挥了挥手。

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My first brush with a headmaster came six years ago...

我跟校长的第一次冲突发生在6年前。

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It is his third brush with the law in less than a year.

这已是他在不到一年的时间里第三次触犯法律了。

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...the trauma of a brush with death...

和死神擦肩而过的心灵创伤

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The corporation is fighting to survive its second brush with bankruptcy.

公司正在努力摆脱自身遭遇的第二次破产危机。

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...the brush fire that destroyed nearly 500 acres.

焚毁了近500亩灌木丛的大火

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...a meadow of low brush and grass.

长有低矮灌木和草的牧场

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