ply
- IPA[plʌɪ]
英式
- work steadily with (a tool)；work steadily at (one's business or trade)
verb: ply, 3rd person present: plies, gerund or present participle: plying, past tense: plied, past participle: plied
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動詞
- 1. work steadily with (a tool) a tailor delicately plying his needle 同義詞
- ▪ work steadily at (one's business or trade) for three years he plied a profitable export trade between England and Australia 同義詞
- 2. (of a vessel or vehicle) travel regularly over a route, typically for commercial purposes ferries ply across a strait to the island 同義詞
- ▪ regularly travel over (a route) the fleet has plied the Bristol Channel since Victorian times
- 3. provide someone with (food or drink) in a continuous or insistent way she plied me with tea and scones 同義詞
- ▪ direct (numerous questions) at someone she plied him with questions about his visit 同義詞
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