shed是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a small building, usually made of wood, used for storing things -- （通常爲木質、存放物品用的）棚子，小屋

  • a tool/storage shed 工具／儲物棚

  • UK a garden/bicycle shed 花園／腳踏車棚

  • the lambing shed 産羔棚

  • a cow shed 牛棚

• 1 (often used in newspapers) to get rid of something you do not need or want -- （常爲報刊用語）去除，擺脫

  • 900 jobs will be shed over the next few months. 接下來幾個月中要裁減900個職位。

  • Psychotherapy helped him to shed some of his insecurity/inhibitions. 心理療法幫助他擺脫了一些不安全感／自我壓抑。

  • I'm going on a diet to see if I can shed (= become thinner by losing) a few pounds. 我要節食，看能不能甩掉幾磅。

  • The trees shed their leaves in autumn. 樹木在秋天落葉。

  • They ran down to the water, shedding clothes as they went. 他們奔向大海，一邊跑一邊脫衣服。

  • UK A lorry had shed a load of gravel across the road. 一輛卡車在路上掉下了一堆碎石。

• 2 to produce tears, light, blood, etc. -- 流淚／流血／發光（等等）

  • She shed a few tears at her daughter's wedding. 她在女兒的婚禮上流下淚來。

  • So much blood has been shed (= so many people have been badly hurt or killed) in this war. 這場戰爭造成了慘重的傷亡。

• 3 short form of she had -- （she had的縮略形式）

  • She'd found the answer, at last. 她最後終於找到了答案。

  • She'd be a great managing director, don't you think? 她會成爲一位出色的總經理，難道你不這麽認爲嗎？