| 词汇 | dress |
| 释义 | dress down 1. dress down to wear clothes that are more informal than you usually wear: Employees are allowed to dress down on Fridays, and come to work in jeans and T shirts. Women are dressing down much more these days.■ OPPOSITE: dress up2. give sb a dressing down old-fashioned to punish someone by telling them angrily that they have behaved badly: When he arrived late again, he was taken to the boss's office and given a dressing down.■ SIMILAR TO: tell off dress up 1. dress up to put on formal clothes or your best clothes, for example in order to go to work or for a special occasion: Do you have to dress up for work? Grandma always dressed up and went to church every Sunday.get dressed up I love to get dressed up and go out to a concert or the theatre.■ OPPOSITE: dress down2. dress up • dress up sb • dress sb up to put on special clothes for fun, especially so that you look like someone else, or to make someone do this+ in Little girls often like dressing up in their mother's clothes. Some men get a kick out of dressing up in women's clothing.+ as Raymond wants to dress up as Dracula for Halloween. At Christmas, my mother used to dress me up as an elf.be dressed up in/as sth Several people at the party were dressed up in cowboy boots and big hats.3. dress up sth • dress sth up to make something sound more interesting, attractive or acceptable than it really is: The Labour government has tried to dress up its policies and make them sound more environmentally friendly.+ as His photographs are just pornography, dressed up as art.
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