Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense frames, present participle framing, past tense, past participle framed
1N-COUNT (尤指挂在墙上展示的)画框,镜框 The frame of a picture or mirror is the wood, metal, or plastic that is fitted around it, especially when it is displayed or hung on a wall. (尤指挂在墙上展示的)画框,镜框
Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.
2N-COUNT 框;架;骨架;框架 The frame of an object such as a building, chair, or window is the arrangement of wooden, metal, or plastic bars between which other material is fitted, and which give the object its strength and shape. 框;架;骨架;框架
He supplied housebuilders with modern timber frames.
他给房屋建筑商提供了现代的木构架。
With difficulty he released the mattress from the metal frame, and groped beneath it.
他费了很大力气才把床垫从金属架上移开,然后在下面摸索。
We painted our table to match the window frame in the bedroom.
3N-COUNT [usually plural]眼镜框;眼镜架 The frames of a pair of glasses are all the metal or plastic parts of it, but not the lenses. 眼镜框;眼镜架
He was wearing new spectacles with gold wire frames.
他戴了一副新的金边眼镜。
4N-COUNT [oft poss NOUN](人体的)骨架;(尤指)体形,体态 You can refer to someone's body as their frame, especially when you are describing the general shape of their body. (人体的)骨架;(尤指)体形,体态
Their belts are pulled tight against their bony frames.
5N-COUNT (电影的)画面,镜头 A frame of cinema film is one of the many separate photographs that it consists of. (电影的)画面,镜头
Standard 8mm projects at 16 frames per second.
标准的 8 毫米的胶片每秒放映16 组镜头。
6ADJ [ADJ n](建筑)木制的,木结构的 A frame building is one in which pieces of wood form the most important part of the structure, rather than bricks or stone. (建筑)木制的,木结构的 [US]
He lives in a white-painted frame house behind a picket fence up in Connecticut.
他住在康涅狄格州北部一个漆成白色的木制房子里,屋子前面竖着尖桩篱栅。
7VERB [usually passive]给…加框 When a picture or photograph is framed, it is put in a frame. 给…加框
The picture is now ready to be mounted and framed. [beVERB-ed]
这幅画现在可以装裱加框了。
On the wall is a large framed photograph. [VERB-ed]
8VERB [usually passive]给…镶边;给…做框 If an object is framed by a particular thing, it is surrounded by that thing in a way that makes the object more striking or attractive to look at. 给…镶边;给…做框
The swimming pool is framed by tropical gardens. [beVERB-ed prep.]
泳池周围都是栽种热带花卉的花园。
An elegant occasional table is framed in the window. [beVERB-ed prep.]
9VERB 创设,拟定,制定(规则、计划或体系) If someone frames something such as a set of rules, a plan, or a system, they create and develop it. 创设,拟定,制定(规则、计划或体系) [written]
After the war, a convention was set up to frame a constitution. [VERB noun]
10VERB 表达;表示 If someone frames something in a particular style or kind of language, they express it in that way. 表达;表示 [Also VERB n preposition/adverb]
The story is framed in a format that is part thriller, part love story. [beVERB-ed prep./adv.]
情节的展开模式既像惊险小说,又像爱情故事。
He framed this question three different ways in search of an answer. [VERB noun noun]
11VERB 作伪证;陷害;诬陷 If someone frames an innocent person, they make other people think that that person is guilty of a crime, by lying or inventing evidence. 作伪证;陷害;诬陷 [informal]
I need to find out who tried to frame me. [VERB noun]
我得找出是谁企图诬陷我。
He claimed that he had been framed by the police. [VERB noun]
他声称自己被警察设计陷害了。
SYN falsely incriminate, set up [informal], fit up [slang]
12PHRASE 在…考虑范围内;有机会成为… If someone is in the framefor something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it. 在…考虑范围内;有机会成为…
We need a win to keep us in the frame for the title.