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suit /suːt/ also /sjuːt/► SEE ALLsuit your/sb’s booksuit sb (right) down to the groundsuit yourselfin/wearing your birthday suitfollow suitbe your strong point/suit
●ˌsuit your/sb’s ˈbook (BrE, informal) be convenient or useful for you/sb 符合某人的要求；对某人方便（或有用）◆Well, if you’re honest and hard-working, that suits our book.
嗯，要是你诚实肯干，那正合我们的需要。●suit sb (right) ˌdown to the ˈground (BrE, informal) suit sb completely 完全合某人的意；称某人的心◆I’ve found a job that suits me down to the ground: the pay’s great and I can work from home.
我找到一份称心如意的工作：薪水很高，而且还可以在家里工作。●ˌsuit yourˈself (informal) 1. do exactly what you like 随自己的意愿◆I choose my assignments to suit myself.
我根据自己的喜好选任务。2. usually used in orders to tell sb to do what they want, even though it might annoy you （表示听凭对方的意愿）自便，随便，想怎样就怎样◆‘I don’t want anything to eat, I’m on a diet.’ ‘All right, suit yourself!’
“我什么也不想吃，我正在节食。”“好吧，随你的便！”●in/wearing your ˈbirthday suit (informal, humorous) wearing no clothes; naked 赤条条的；裸体的◆The towel fell off, and there he was in his birthday suit!浴巾掉了下来，他赤条条地站在那里！●follow ˈsuitact or behave in the way that sb else has just done 跟风；仿效某人；照样行事◆One of the oil companies put up the price of fuel today, and the others are expected to follow suit.今天一家石油公司提高了油价，其他公司预计会跟风。 NOTE If you follow suit in card games, you play a card of the same suit (= either hearts, clubs, diamonds or spades) that has just been played. * follow suit 原指打牌时跟随上家出同样花色的牌。 ●be your ˈstrong point/suitbe a thing that you do well 是某人的强项；为某人所长◆Writing letters has never been my strong point.我从来就不擅长写信。◆Logic is definitely not his strong suit.逻辑推理绝对不是他的强项。 |