suit
- IPA[so͞ot]
美式
- a set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt；a set of clothes to be worn on a particular occasion or for a particular activity
- be convenient for or acceptable to；act entirely according to one's own wishes (often used to express the speaker's annoyance)
verb: suit, 3rd person present: suits, gerund or present participle: suiting, past tense: suited, past participle: suited
noun: suit, plural noun: suits
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. a set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt a pinstriped suit 同義詞
- ▪ a set of clothes to be worn on a particular occasion or for a particular activity a jogging suit
- ▪ a complete set of pieces of armor for covering the whole body a suit of armor
- ▪ informal an executive in a business or organization, typically one regarded as exercising influence in an impersonal way maybe now the suits in Washington will listen 同義詞
- 2. any of the sets distinguished by their pictorial symbols into which a deck of playing cards is divided, in conventional decks comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs.
- 3. short for lawsuit
- 4. the process of trying to win a woman's affection with a view to marriage he could not compete with John's charms in Marian's eyes and his suit came to nothing 同義詞
- ▪ literary a petition or entreaty made to a person in authority he sought a passage to Christian lands, but they spurned his suit
- 5. a complete set of sails required for a ship or for a set of spars they went ashore and changed to another suit of sails
動詞
- 1. be convenient for or acceptable to the apartment has two bedrooms—if it suits, you can have one of them he lied whenever it suited him 同義詞
- ▪ act entirely according to one's own wishes (often used to express the speaker's annoyance) “I'm not going to help you.” “Suit yourself.”
- ▪ archaic adapt or make appropriate for (something) they took care to suit their answers to the questions put to them
- 2. go well with or enhance the features, figure, or character of (someone) the dress didn't suit her 同義詞
- 3. North American put on clothes, especially for a particular activity I suited up and entered the water
