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 -- 宠物

  • They have several pets - a dog, two rabbits, and a guinea pig. 他们有好几只宠物：一只狗、两只兔子和一只豚鼠。

  • a pet snake 宠物蛇

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

  • The other children hated her because she was the teacher's pet. 别的孩子都恨她，因为她是老师的宠儿。

  • He's always sending me flowers - he's a real pet! 他总是送花给我——他真讨人喜欢！

  • Thank you, pet. 谢谢你，宝贝儿。

• 2 If you pet an animal, child, etc., you touch it, him, or her gently and kindly with your hands. -- 抚摸，爱抚，轻按

  • Our dog loves to be petted and tickled behind the ears. 我们的狗喜欢人在它耳后抚摸、挠痒。

• 3 a theory, subject, hate, etc. that is special and important to you -- 特别喜爱的理论／话题／特别讨厌的事物（等等）

  • Football is one of her pet hates. 足球是她最讨厌的东西之一。

  • US My pet peeve (= pet hate) is cleaning the bathroom. 我最讨厌的事情就是打扫浴室。

• 4 abbreviation for polyethylene terephthalate: a type of plastic used especially to make bottles -- 聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯（polyethylene terephthalate 的缩写）

  • The house has translucent walls made from a plastic called PET, essentially the same material used in soda bottles. 房子半透明的墙壁是用一种叫做PET的塑料制成的，基本上与汽水瓶的材料相同。

  • Most water bottles are made from PET plastic. 大多数装水的瓶子都是由PET塑料制成的。

• 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 -- 正电子发射计算机断层扫描术（positron emission tomography 的缩写）

  • They used PET, a brain-scanning technology. 他们使用了PET，一种大脑扫描技术。

  • Volunteers underwent PET scans while trying to quickly retrace routes between various landmarks in the virtual town. 志愿者在接受PET扫描的同时，试图在虚拟城镇中的各个地标之间快速追溯路线。