n.

1. 【建】灰泥，灰漿[U]
   The walls were in a dreadful condition -- their yellow plaster was peeling off.

   牆已經破爛不堪，上面的灰泥都在剝落。

2. 熟石膏，燒石膏[U]
3. 膏藥；橡皮膏[C][U]
   I dabbed the cut and applied a plaster.

   我在切開的傷口上塗了一點藥並貼上一塊橡皮膏。

vt.

1. 在……上塗灰泥；厚厚地塗抹[（+over/with）]
   My shoes were plastered with mud.

   我鞋上沾滿爛泥。

2. 在……上敷貼膏藥
   The nurse washed and plastered the wound.

   護士清洗了傷口並在上面貼了膏藥。

3. 安慰；減輕
4. 黏貼；貼滿[（+on/with）]
   He plastered his room with pictures of actors and actresses.

   他在他房間裡貼滿了男女演員的照片。

   The Manager always writes everyone's duty on pieces of paper and has them plastered to the blackboard.

   經理總是將每人的工作寫在紙條上，並且黏貼在黑板上。

5. 使緊貼；使平服[O]
   He plastered his hair down.

   他把頭髮梳平。

6. 用熟石膏處理
7. 掩飾；使過分承受[（+with）]
   They tried to plaster over the differences.

   他們試圖掩蓋分歧。

8. 【俚】（徹底）擊敗；重創
   Our football team really got plastered last week.

   我們的足球隊上星期遭到慘敗。

n.

1. a soft mixture of lime with sand or cement and water for spreading on walls and ceilings to form a smooth hard surface when dried.
2. (also plaster of Paris) a hard white substance made by the addition of water to powdered gypsum, used for holding broken bones in place and making sculptures and casts.
3. (also sticking plaster) Brit. an adhesive strip of material for covering cuts and wounds.
   ▸dated a bandage on which a poultice is spread for application.

v.

1. cover with plaster; apply plaster to.
2. coat or cover all over with something, especially to an excessive extent:
   a face plastered in heavy make-up.
   ▸display widely and conspicuously:

   her story was plastered all over the papers.
3. apply a plaster cast to.
4. informal, dated bomb or shell (a target) heavily.

[名]

1. 石膏；灰泥。