My skin soon chaps in cold weather. 我的皮肤在寒冷天气很快就裂了.
I was only going to have one drink but the chaps in the pub led me astray and I stayed and had several. 我只想在那里喝一杯,但酒店的那帮家伙硬拉着我,我留下喝了几杯。
Chaps \Chaps\, n. pl. The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See {Chap}. ``Open your chaps again.'' --Shak.
Chaps \Chaps\, n. pl. Short for {Chaparajos}. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Flews \Flews\, n. pl. The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also {chaps}. See Illust. of {Bloodhound}.
Chaparajos \Cha`pa*ra"jos\, n. pl. [Mex. Sp.] Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also {chapareras} or colloq. {chaps}. [Sp. Amer.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
The dismay stems from an appreciation of the scale of the risks the system has been running. Chaps, the system that handles large UK payments - typically Pounds 2m or so at a time - works well at a technical level.