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  • [heər]
  • Derivatives : adj  hairlike
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

hair [hεər]
  1. 1. noun [u] (human) (on head) 头发
  2. 2. noun [u] (on body) 汗毛
  3. 3. noun [c] (single strand) 毛发
  4. 4. noun [c/u] (animal on body,single strand) 毛毛
  5. 5. noun [c] (on plants and insects) 绒毛
    to do one's hair
    梳头
    to have {or} get one's hair done
    打理头发
    to have {or} get one's hair cut
    头发
    by a hair's breadth
    [fig] 极端距离
    to let one's hair down
    [fig] 放松一点
    to make sb's hair stand on end
    [fig] 使某人毛骨悚然
    not a hair out of place
    衣着一丝不乱
    he didn't turn a hair
    泰然处之
    to get in sb's hair
    惹恼某人

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

hair [heər]
  1. 1. n.[u] 毛发
    A chap with short brown hair was smiling down at me.
    一个棕色短发的小伙子朝我微笑
    He combed his hair.
    他梳理自己的头发
    Each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells.
    每根毛发包含多层死亡角质细胞
  2. 2. n.[c] 极短的距离极小的空间
    Their effort was just a hair too short and failed.
    他们付出努力太少,失败了。
  3. 3. n.[c] [Botany] 毛,茸毛
    By observing plants, even wild grasses, you can see some hairs on the stem .
    通过观察植物甚至野草,你会发现它们茎干上会有一些茸毛
  4. 4. n.[c] 毛发
    Our family dog seems to leave his hairs everywhere.
    我们家的狗毛发乱散一地。
    There is a hair in my soup.
    我的里面有一根头发
  5. 5. n.[c] 毛织物
    Her hair scarf was very expensive and soft.
    她的头巾非常昂贵非常柔软
  6. 6. n.[c] 茸毛
    Many tarantulas have a dense covering of stinging hairs on the abdomen.
    许多狼蛛腹部覆盖密集的刺状茸毛

Collins English-English Dictionary

hair [hεə]
  1. 1. n any of the threadlike pigmented structures that grow from follicles beneath the skin of mammals and consist of layers of dead keratinized cells
  2. 2. n a growth of such structures, as on the human head or animal body, which helps prevent heat loss from the body
  3. 3. n [Botany] any threadlike outgrowth from the epidermis, such as a root hair
  4. 4. n a fabric or material made from the hair of some animals
  5. 5. n (as modifier)
    a hair carpet
    a hair shirt
  6. 6. n another word for hair's-breadth
    to lose by a hair
  7. 7. n [Etymology] Old English hær; related to Old Norse har, Old High German har hair, Norwegian herren stiff, hard, Lettish sari bristles, Latin crescere to grow

Examples

Hair dyes contain a group of alcohols which are colorless, non-toxic and chemically indifferent to the dye and the hair.
染发剂中含有一组无色无毒的醇类物质,它们对染料和头发的化学反应是惰性的。
carroty hair
红黄色头发
hair clippings
剪下的头发
crimpy hair
卷发
do one's nails or hair
修剪指甲或梳头发
hair falling about her shoulders
披垂在她双肩的头发

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