polish
磨光，擦亮；擦亮剂；优雅，精良
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教材释义与例句
磨光，擦亮；擦亮剂；优雅，精良
an act of polishing a surface to make it smooth and shiny
擦亮，变光滑
to make something smooth, bright, and shiny by rubbing it
释义与例句
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1.
A substance used to polish.
可数 不可数A good silver polish will remove tarnish easily.
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2.
Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
可数 不可数The floor was waxed to a high polish.
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3.
Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
可数 不可数The lecturer showed a lot of polish at his last talk.
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1.
To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
擦亮
及物He polished up the chrome until it gleamed.
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2.
To refine; remove imperfections from.
及物The band has polished its performance since the last concert.
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3.
To apply shoe polish to shoes.
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4.
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
不及物Steel polishes well.
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5.
To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
及物
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词源
From Middle English polishen, from Old French poliss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of polir, from Latin polīre (“to polish, make smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive, strike, thrust”), from the notion of fulling cloth.
来源：wiktionary