spruce

• vi. 打扮整齐；使显干净
• adj. 整洁的
• vt. 打扮整齐
• n. 云杉

来自 Spruce,拼写变体自 Pruce,普鲁士，欧洲历史地名，德意志境内最强大的邦国，后统一了 德意志。该树因从普鲁士进口到英国而得名，是制作家具的优质木材，也是奢华的代名词。 因此，引申词义装饰，打扮。

1. light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

2. any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

spruce

spruce: Spruce ‘neat’ [16] and spruce the tree [17] are completely different words, of course, but they could have a common origin – in Spruce, the old English name for Prussia. Spruce the tree was originally the spruce fir, literally the ‘Prussian fir’. And it is thought that the adjective spruce may have come from the expression spruce leather ‘Prussian leather’, which denoted a particularly fine sort of leather, used for making jackets. The word itself is an unexplained alteration of Pruce ‘Prussia’, which was acquired via Old French from medieval Latin Prussia.
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spruce (n.)

1660s, "evergreen tree, fir," from spruse (adj.) "made of spruce wood" (early 15c.), literally "from Prussia," from Spruce, Sprws (late 14c.), unexplained alterations of Pruce "Prussia," from an Old French form of Prussia.

Spruce seems to have been a generic term for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (especially beer, boards and wooden chests, and leather), and the tree thus was believed to be particular to Prussia, which for a time was figurative in England as a land of luxuries. Compare spruce (adj.).

As a distinct species of evergreen tree from 1731. Nearly all pines have long, soft needles growing in groups of two (Scotch) to five (white); spruce and fir needles grow singly. Spruce needles are squarish and sharp; fir needles are short and flat. Cones of the fir stand upright; cones of a spruce hang before falling.

spruce (v.)

"to make trim or neat," 1590s, from spruce (adj.). Related: Spruced; sprucing.

spruce (adj.)

"neat, smart in dress and appearance, dapper, brisk," 1580s, from spruce leather (mid-15c.; see spruce (n.)), a type of leather imported from Prussia in the 1400s and 1500s which was used in England to make a popular style of jerkin that was considered smart-looking.

She spruced up for the interview.

她为参加面试打扮了一番。

牛津词典

The city is sprucing up its museums and galleries.

这座城市正在美化自己的博物馆和美术馆。

牛津词典

Trees such as spruce, pine and oak have been planted.

种植了云杉、松树和橡树等树木。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a young blue spruce.

蓝云杉幼株

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Chris was looking spruce in his stiff-collared black shirt and new short hair cut.

克里斯穿着硬领黑衫，新理了短发，看起来整洁帅气。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Drag onto the page to add a conifer tree, as pine, fir, spruce, redwood, or arborvitae.

拖到绘图页后,可以添加针叶树, 如松树 、 杉树 、 云杉 、 红木或柏树.

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Spruce up your image.

塑造你的外在形象.

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Some even scoff at the store's efforts to spruce up its image.

尽管沃尔玛努力改善公司形象,也有人将其拿来大加嘲讽.

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Aspen pulp is the weakest of the commonly used hardwoods strong as spruce.

白杨是常用于生产亚硫酸盐浆强度较差的阔叶木,撕裂度和耐破度分别为云杉浆的50%和60%.

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You really must spruce up a bit, Albert.

阿尔培,你可是得把自己搞得整洁一点了.

辞典例句

European Spruce and Maple for musical instruments. Red Cedar tops, Mahogany, Zebrawood and many more.

制作乐器的欧洲云杉和枫木, 上等红雪松, 桃花心木, 热带美洲产木材等等.

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There are abundance wilding plant resources including cypress, poplar, spruce etc.

山中野生植物资源丰富,盛产云杉、柏 、 杨等木材.

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Among the many passengers on this boat, both male and female, was a spruce young dandy.

船上载着许多男女旅客, 其中有一个穿着一身考究衣服的花花公子.

辞典例句

The job isn't hinging on whet IT you choose to be a spruce versus an oak.

任务的关键不在于你挑选了云杉而否则橡树.

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Conifer tree style such as pine, fir, spruce, redwood, cedar, etc.

针叶类树包括松树 、 杉树 、 云杉 、 红木 、 雪松, 等等.

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You can now spruce up your handset with number of third party applications.

现在,您可以美化你的第三方应用软件的手机号码.

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Spruce up your house for Spring.

为了春天把你房子化妆一下.

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Piano keys are spruce , and are individually balanced ( grands ) and weighted.

琴键 由云杉制成,每一个都保证均衡的最佳状态.

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It's the ideal time to spruce up for the coming season.

这是为即将到来的一季精心打扮的时刻.

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However, the low exchangeable caution of cation is one of the reason about spruce death.

但是土壤阳离子代换量低可能是云杉死亡的一个因子.

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Following in his steps, I passed through damp spruce woods to an open cliff.

我跟在他的后面, 穿过一片潮湿的云杉树林,来到一片开阔的峭壁前.

《简明英汉词典》

Southern Tai Jialin basically is Shan Yang of mixed forest of pine, spruce and birch, Europe.

南部泰加林主要是松树 、 云杉混交林以及桦树 、 欧洲山杨.

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He looked spruce in his best clothes.

他穿了最漂亮的衣裳,看来很神气.

《简明英汉词典》

Those thousands of new homebuyers will need to spruce up their castles.

成千上万的买房者需要装饰他们的“城堡”.

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Conifer tree style such as pine, fir, spruce, redwood, arborvitae, etc.

针叶类树包括松树 、 杉树 、 云杉 、 红木 、 柏树, 等等.

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Spruce and pine are evergreen trees.

云杉和松树都是常绿树木.

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The mast, which was a solid spruce spar, bent like a bow, and for a moment I thought we were going to lose it.

坚固的云杉木做成的桅杆已经弯得像一把弓，那一刻我觉得它马上就要断了。

柯林斯例句

Early settlers built frames of spruce, maple and pine.

早期的定居者用云杉木、枫木和松木建造屋架。

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It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it.

其制作材料是软木，看起来像是云杉。

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