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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- button
['b^tn]
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1.
noun
[c]
(on clothes) 钮扣
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2.
noun
(on machine) 按钮
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3.
noun
[US]
(badge) 徽章[英 = badge]
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on the button
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[inf] 准确
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4.
vt.
(also： button up) 扣钮扣
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- button
[ˈbʌtən]
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1.
n.[c]
纽扣，扣子
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He lost the button of his shirt.
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他把衬衫上的纽扣丢了。
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2.
n.[c]
按钮
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This button opens the garage door.
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这只电子纽扣开关用于打开车库的门。
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3.
n.[c]
[Botany]
芽；苞
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4.
n.[c]
徽章
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Anyone wearing buttons or carrying signs is given especially close scrutiny.
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任何佩戴徽章或者携带标语的人都被特别仔细地检查。
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They passed out campaign buttons for their candidate.
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他们开始为他们的候选人开展竞选活动。
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5.
n.[c]
阴蒂，阴核
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6.
n.[c]
释放装置，开关
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To release the phone, push back the button near the top of the holder.
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如果想挂断电话，请按下靠近听筒顶端的插簧。
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7.
n.[c]
人工的扣形物
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Finally, fry the button mushrooms in butter.
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最后，在黄油中煎炸这些像扣子一样的蘑菇。
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8.
vt.
装纽扣，钉扣子
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The hats are ideal worn with this season's long, buttoned skirts.
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这种帽子与这个季节流行的带扣长衫很搭配。
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It was a white shirt, buttoned at the neck without a tie.
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那是一件白衬衫，领子上有扣，不带领结。
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9.
vt.
用纽扣扣住
Collins English-English Dictionary
- button
['b^tən]
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1.
n
a disc or knob of plastic, wood, etc, attached to a garment, etc, usually for fastening two surfaces together by passing it through a buttonhole or loop
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2.
n
a small round object, such as any of various sweets, decorations, or badges
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3.
n
a small disc that completes an electric circuit when pushed, as one that operates a doorbell or machine
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4.
n
a symbolic representation of a button on the screen of a computer that is notionally depressed by manipulating the mouse to initiate an action
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5.
n
[Biology]
any rounded knoblike part or organ, such as an unripe mushroom
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6.
n
[fencing]
the protective knob fixed to the point of a foil
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7.
n
a small amount of metal, usually lead, with which gold or silver is fused, thus concentrating it during assaying
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8.
n
the piece of a weld that pulls out during the destructive testing of spot welds
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9.
n
[rowing]
a projection around the loom of an oar that prevents it slipping through the rowlock
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10.
n
[Brit]
an object of no value (esp in the phrase not worth a button)
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11.
n
[Slang]
intellect; mental capacity (in such phrases as a button short, to have all one's buttons, etc)
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12.
vb
to fasten with a button or buttons
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13.
vt.
[tr]
to provide with buttons
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14.
vt.
[tr]
[fencing]
to hit (an opponent) with the button of one's foil
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15.
vt.
See also buttons button up
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16.
vt.
[Etymology]
C14: from Old French boton, from boter to thrust, butt, of Germanic origin; see butt3
Examples
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a button-down mind
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保守思想
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Don't push the button before I give you a sign.
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在我给你信号之前不要按这个按钮。
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Hurry and button up your coat otherwise you'll get sick from the cold.
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快，把外套扣上，不然天这么冷你会生病的。
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on the button
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[inf] 准确
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his shirt was missing a button
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[inf] 他的衬衫少了一粒纽扣
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I pressed the button but nothing happened.
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我按了按钮，但什么都没有发生。
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there's a button off
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一颗扣子掉了
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