| 词汇 | ply |
| 释义 | ply verb uk /plaɪ/ us /plaɪ/ plyverb (WORK)[ T ] to sell or to work regularly at something, especially at a job that involves selling things: 经常从事（尤指卖东西的活儿）；兜售 Fishermen in small boats ply their trade up and down the coast.渔民们驾着小船沿着海岸兜售海鲜。 Dealers are openly plying drugs in school playgrounds.毒品贩子公然在校园操场上兜售毒品。 The market traders were loudly plying their wares.市场上的商贩们在高声叫卖他们的商品。 ply for business, trade, etc.mainly UK to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place: 招徕顾客；等生意 There are never any taxis plying for trade/hire in our area.我们这一地区从来都没有出租车在这里候客。 Selling auction Black Friday bundle bundle something with something bundling concession hock MLM network marketing outsell oversell panic selling saleable sales drive sales pitch salesmanship sell out sell something off sting undercut plyverb (TRAVEL)[ I+ adv/prep, T ]old-fashioned When a boat, train, bus, etc. plies a particular route, it makes that journey regularly: 定期往返（于） High-speed trains regularly ply between Paris and Lyons.高速列车定期往返于巴黎和里昂之间。 This airline has been plying the transatlantic route for many years.这家航空公司经营跨大西洋航线已经很多年了。 Travelling around Robin Hood's barnidiom backpack bag drop bourne bum bum around communication commuting connection move negotiate Robin Hood shuttle super-commuting swan taken tour transoceanic visa well travelled Phrasal verbply someone with something ply noun[ U ] uk /plaɪ/ us /plaɪ/ the particular number of threads from which wool, rope, etc. is made, used as a measure of its thickness: （线等的）层，股 six balls of four-ply (wool)6个有4股毛线的线球 What ply do you need for that knitting pattern?那个编结样式需要用几股毛线？ the particular number of layers from which plywood or tissue is formed, used as a measure of its thickness: （胶合板或纸巾的）层 Will three-ply (= woolmade from three layers stuck together) be strong enough for making a shelf?三层夹板搭的架子是否够结实？ Measurements in general altitude bathymetric bathymetrically bathymetry be running at somethingidiom calibrate cubic drop elevation factor knee-length metric micro non-measurable pico- scale setting stopping distance tera- uncalibrated ply | American Dictionaryply noun[ U ] us/plɑɪ/ plynoun[U] (LAYER)a layer of something such as wood or paper, or a thread that is wrapped with other threads to form yarn (= wool cord) or rope: two-ply facial tissue ply verb us/plɑɪ/ plyverb (WORK)[ T ] to work at something regularly: New buses plied the city's bus routes this week. Extreme-sports athletes ply their craft (= their skill or job) in especially difficult conditions. plyverb (TRAVEL)[ I/T ] to travel over distances regularly by boat or other form of transport: [ T ]Large numbers of vessels plied the waters between New York and Cape Hatteras. Phrasal verbply someone with something ply | Business Englishply verb uk /plaɪ/us [ T ] COMMERCE to sell something: ply (your) waresCompanies should be accountable for the wares that they ply. [ I or T ] TRANSPORT to make a journey regularly: There are fears about the safety of some of the ageing vessels that ply Aegean waters. ply between sthAt present, big cargo ships plying between the east and west coasts of India have to circumnavigate Sri Lanka. The airline recently founded a new operator to ply long-haul routes to China and Britain starting in July. ply for business/hire/trade COMMERCE to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place: London's formidable black taxis enjoy a lucrative near monopoly over plying for hire on the capital's streets. ply your trade to do your job: Having worked as a government lawyer for 15 years, he is departing for the private sector to ply his trade as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn. Phrasal verbply sb with sth Examples of plyply The classrooms are divided by an ambitious and rather heavy movable ply wall, emphasizing one aspect of the nature/technology theme. Sometimes transportation is not available simply because drivers and owners of vehicles refuse to ply particular routes for fear of damage to their vehicles. In the rainy season in particular, potholes, floods, swamps and filth make it extremely difficult for cars and trucks to ply the roads. Carrying ply fabric so that it is thinner includes holding; it's thus more than fabrics of comparable comprehensive. The impact of smoking ply offsets the reduction in levels of acetylcholine acting at all sites. The more you know the inherently safer it is. ply from a study of self-stimulation circuitry and motivations such as feeding and drinking. They plied a highly personalised and semi-authoritarian regime with substantial resources. A duct space is formed on site between deep ply-faced beams. These missing ply do not exist in the sample at hand. How did they ply their crafts, and where? In encompassing the steel cable which connected top to base rig, the paired ply discs acted as posttensioning devices when tightened together, augmenting the work of the props. The 90,000 drug reps show up in doctors' offices, ply the office staff with food, and sponsor meals in hospitals across the country for staff and house staff conferences. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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