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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

apron ['eɪprən]
  1. 1. noun [c] (clothing) 围裙
  2. 2. noun the apron (at airport) 停机坪

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

apron [ˈeɪprən]
  1. 1. n.[c] 围裙
    My mother always wore an apron when she cooked.
    我的母亲做饭时总系着一件围裙
  2. 2. n.[c] [Golf] 球洞四周的草坡
  3. 3. n.[c] 台口
    She walked out onto the apron and began to sing in front of the full theatre.
    她走上台口,开始对着整个剧场放声高歌
  4. 4. n.[c] 停机坪
    The pilot parked the airplane on the apron and exited the craft.
    飞行员飞机停在停机坪上并出了驾驶舱

Collins English-English Dictionary

apron ['eɪprən]
  1. 1. n a protective or sometimes decorative or ceremonial garment worn over the front of the body and tied around the waist
  2. 2. n the part of a stage extending in front of the curtain line; forestage
  3. 3. n a hard-surfaced area in front of or around an aircraft hangar, terminal building, etc, upon which aircraft can stand
  4. 4. n a continuous conveyor belt composed usually of slats linked together
  5. 5. n a protective plate screening the operator of a machine, artillery piece, etc
  6. 6. n a ground covering of concrete or other material used to protect the underlying earth from water erosion
  7. 7. n a panel or board between a window and a skirting in a room
  8. 8. n [geology] a sheet of sand, gravel, etc, deposited at the front of a moraine
  9. 9. n [golf] the part of the fairway leading onto the green
  10. 10. n [machinery] the housing for the lead screw gears of a lathe
  11. 11. n another name for skirt
  12. 12. vt. [tr] to protect or provide with an apron
  13. 13. vt. [Etymology] C16: mistaken division (as if an apron) of earlier a napron, from Old French naperon a little cloth, from nape cloth, from Latin mappa napkin

Examples

She walked out onto the apron and began to sing in front of the full theatre.
她走上台口,开始对着整个剧场放声高歌。
Mom negotiated her wide body through the tables, wiping her hands on her apron.
妈妈设法使其宽大的身躯顺利通过了这些桌子,然后在围裙上擦了擦手。
He was tied to his mother's apron strings.
他受他妈妈的影响。
My mother tied on an apron.
我母亲系着围裙。
她系上围裙下厨房了。
She put on her apron and went to the kitchen.
她在围裙上绣了一只小白兔。
She embroidered a little white rabbit on the apron.
围裙
apron

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