| 单词 |
brush |
| 例句 |
brush noun | noun
1 noun 1.•a styling brush|•camel-hair brushes|•a brush and dustpan:hairbrush | toothbrush | paintbrush | scrub brush | whisk broom, sweeper, broom. 2.•he gave the seat a brush with his hand:sweep, wipe, dust. 3.•the brush of his lips against her cheek:touch, stroke, skim, graze, nudge, contact | kiss. 4.•a brush with the law:encounter, clash, confrontation, conflict, altercation, incident | informal run-in.▶verb 1.•she brushed her hair:groom, comb, neaten, tidy, smooth, arrange, fix, do | curry. 2.•she felt his lips brush her cheek:touch, stroke, caress, skim, sweep, graze, contact | kiss. 3.•she brushed a wisp of hair away:push, move, sweep, clear. PHRASES
brush something aside •she brushed aside his repeated warnings:disregard, ignore, dismiss, shrug off, wave aside | overlook, pay no attention to, take no notice of, neglect, forget about, turn a blind eye to, turn a deaf ear to | reject, spurn | laugh off, make light of, trivialize | informal pooh-pooh.
brush someone off •he tried to help, but she brushed him off:rebuff, dismiss, spurn, reject | slight, scorn, disdain | ignore, disregard, snub, turn one's back on, give someone the cold shoulder, freeze out | jilt, cast aside, discard.
brush up (on) •I'm brushing up on my French before our trip to Paris:relearn, read up (on), go over, study | improve, sharpen (up), polish up | hone, refine, perfect | informal bone up (on).
2 noun •the pheasant scampered into the brush:undergrowth, bushes, scrub, underwood, underbrush, brushland, brushwood, shrubs, chaparral | thicket, copse | rare boscage. |
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