n.
- 紙[U]
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Can you spare some
paper for me?
你能勻出一些紙給我嗎？
- 報紙[C]
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What news is there in the
papers this morning?
今天早上報紙裡有點什麼新聞？
- 試題，試卷，答案（紙）[C]
- 論文，報告[C]
- 牆紙[C][U]
- 文件[P]
vt.
- 在……貼壁紙，用紙包
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The room was
papered in green.
房間用綠色牆紙裱糊。
- 掩蓋，粉飾[（+over/up）]
a.
- 紙的，紙製的
- 似紙的，薄的
- 紙上的，有名無實的
片語
commit sth. to paper
- 把某事寫下來
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Everything he said was
committed to paper.
他所說的一切都被記下來了。
not worth the paper it is written on
- 毫無價值
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The news was
not worth the paper it was written on.
那條新聞毫無價值。
on paper
- 未經實踐；在理論上
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It was just a scheme
on paper.
那只不過是一個紙上計劃。
paper over/up
- 掩蓋
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The split between the two groups can hardly be
papered over.
這兩個團體間的分歧難以掩飾。
send in one's papers
- 提出辭呈
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After the scandal, he had to
send in his papers.
出了醜聞後，他不得不辭職。
set a paper
- 出考題
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The teacher was busy
setting a paper.
老師正忙於出考題。
衍生
辨析
n.
- material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing or printing on or as wrapping material.
▸
(papers)
sheets of paper covered with writing or printing; documents.
▸
[
as modifier]
officially documented but having no real existence or use:
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a paper profit.
- a newspaper.
- a government report or policy document.
- an essay or dissertation read at a seminar or published in a journal.
- Brit. a set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
▸the written answers to such questions.
- theatrical slang free passes of admission to a theatre or other entertainment.
v.
- cover with wallpaper.
▸
(paper something over)
disguise an awkward problem instead of resolving it.
- theatrical slang fill (a theatre) by giving out free tickets.
Phrase
- on paper
- in writing.
- in theory rather than in reality.
Derivative
- paperer n.
- paperless adj.
- papery adj.
Etymology
ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. papir, from L. papyrus (see papyrus).
