band-aid

['bændeid]
  • n. 创可贴
  • adj. 补缀的

英文词源


Band-Aid (n.)
trademark registered 1924 by Johnson & Johnson for a stick-on gauze pad or strip. See band (n.1) + aid (n.). The British equivalent was Elastoplast. Figurative sense of "temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, pallative" (often lower case, sometimes bandaid) is first recorded 1968; as an adjective, from 1970.

双语例句


1. My underskirt had ridden up into a thick band around my hips.
我的衬裙已经蹿到臀部,厚厚地卷成一圈。

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2. I learned a lot from him about how to run a band.
我从他那里学到了许多关于经营乐队方面的东西.

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3. Kurt had started out playing bass in a rock band.
库尔特起初在一个摇滚乐队弹低音吉他。

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4. They still get treated differently from almost every other contemporary British band.
他们所得到的待遇仍然与当代几乎所有其他英国乐队都不同。

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5. He spent his adolescent years playing guitar in the church band.
他在教堂的乐队里弹吉他,度过了他的青少年时期。

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