| 词组 | dress |
| 释义 | dress [dressed, dressed, dressing] dress down 1. dress down to wear clothes that are more informal than you usually wear: ▪ Employees are allowed to dress down on Fridays, and come to work in jeans and T shirts. ▪ Women are dressing down much more these days. ■ OPPOSITE: dress up 2. give sb a dressing down old-fashioned to punish someone by telling them angrily that they have behaved badly: ▪ When he arrived late again, he was taken to the boss's office and given a dressing down. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑tell off dress up 1. dress up to put on formal clothes or your best clothes, for example in order to go to work or for a special occasion: ▪ Do you have to dress up for work? ▪ Grandma always dressed up and went to church every Sunday. get dressed up ▪ I love to get dressed up and go out to a concert or the theatre. ■ OPPOSITE: dress down 2. dress up • dress up sb • dress sb up to put on special clothes for fun, especially so that you look like someone else, or to make someone do this + in ▪ Little girls often like dressing up in their mother's clothes. ▪ Some men get a kick out of dressing up in women's clothing. + as ▪ Raymond wants to dress up as Dracula for Halloween. ▪ At Christmas, my mother used to dress me up as an elf. be dressed up in/as sth ▪ Several people at the party were dressed up in cowboy boots and big hats. 3. dress up sth • dress sth up to make something sound more interesting, attractive or acceptable than it really is: ▪ The Labour government has tried to dress up its policies and make them sound more environmentally friendly. + as ▪ His photographs are just pornography, dressed up as art. |
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