ply
- IPA[plī]
美式
- work with (a tool, especially one requiring steady, rhythmic movements)；work steadily at (one's business or trade); conduct
verb: ply, 3rd person present: plies, gerund or present participle: plying, past tense: plied, past participle: plied
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. work with (a tool, especially one requiring steady, rhythmic movements) a tailor delicately plying his needle 同義詞
- ▪ work steadily at (one's business or trade); conduct he plied a profitable export trade 同義詞
- 2. (of a vessel or vehicle) travel regularly over a route, typically for commercial purposes ferries ply across a strait to the island 同義詞
- ▪ travel over (a route) regularly for commercial purposes the motion of the big tug as it plied the Jersey coastline
- 3. provide someone with (food or drink) in a continuous or insistent way a flight attendant who plied them with soft drinks 同義詞
- ▪ direct (numerous questions) at someone the presiding judge plied him with a series of absurd questions 同義詞
