pet是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 an animal that is kept in the home as a companion and treated kindly -- 寵物

  • They have several pets - a dog, two rabbits, and a guinea pig. 他們有好幾隻寵物：一隻狗、兩隻兔子和一隻天竺鼠。

  • a pet snake 寵物蛇

• 1 to be the person that someone in authority likes best and treats better than anyone else -- 是（某人的）寵兒

  • The other children hated her because she was the teacher's pet. 別的孩子都討厭她，因為她是老師的寵兒。

  • He's always sending me flowers - he's a real pet! 他總是送花給我——他真討人喜歡！

  • Thank you, pet. 謝謝你，寶貝。

• 2 If you pet an animal, child, etc., you touch it, him, or her gently and kindly with your hands. -- 撫摸，愛撫，輕按

  • Our dog loves to be petted and tickled behind the ears. 我們的狗喜歡人在牠耳後撫摸、呵癢。

• 3 a theory, subject, hate, etc. that is special and important to you -- 特別喜愛的理論／話題／特別討厭的事物（等等）

  • Football is one of her pet hates. 足球是她最討厭的東西之一。

  • US My pet peeve (= pet hate) is cleaning the bathroom. 我最討厭的事情就是打掃浴室。

• 4 abbreviation for polyethylene terephthalate: a type of plastic used especially to make bottles -- 聚對苯二甲酸乙二酯（polyethylene terephthalate 的縮寫）

  • The house has translucent walls made from a plastic called PET, essentially the same material used in soda bottles. 房子半透明的牆壁是用一種叫做PET的塑膠製成的，基本上與汽水瓶的材料相同。

  • Most water bottles are made from PET plastic. 大多數裝水的瓶子都是由PET塑膠製成的。

• 5 abbreviation for positron emission tomography: a method of using special rays (= beams of light) to make images of the inside of the body, especially the brain -- 正電子發射斷層攝影術（positron emission tomography 的縮寫）

  • They used PET, a brain-scanning technology. 他們使用了PET，一種大腦掃描技術。

  • Volunteers underwent PET scans while trying to quickly retrace routes between various landmarks in the virtual town. 志願者在接受PET掃描的同時，試圖在虛擬城鎮中的各個地標之間快速追溯路線。