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 ruffled ['rʌfld]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 有褶饰边的

  1. His clothes were all ruffled up.
    她的衣服全给弄皱了。
  2. He was hoping I wouldn't be there, and I think my presence rather ruffled his feathers.
    他真希望我不去那里,我想我的出现使他有点恼火。


ruffled
[ adj ]
  1. shaken into waves or undulations as by wind

  2. <adj.all>
    the rippled surface of the pond
    with ruffled flags flying
  3. having decorative ruffles or frills

  4. <adj.all>


Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruffled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Ruffling}.] [From {Ruff} a plaited collar, a drum beat, a
tumult: cf. OD. ruyffelen to wrinkle.]
1. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers,
plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

2. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

3. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by
agitation or commotion.

The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled
the placid bosom of the Nile. --I. Taylor.

She smoothed the ruffled seas. --Dryden.

4. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

[the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. --Tennyson.

5. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. --Sir W.
Hamilton.

But, ever after, the small violence done
Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
--Tennyson.

7. To throw into disorder or confusion.

Where best
He might the ruffled foe infest. --Hudibras.

8. To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.]

I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. --Chapman

{To ruffle the feathers of}, to exite the resentment of; to
irritate.

  1. Still, the ducks ruffled feathers in Santa Rosa, Calif., when environmentalists opposed a race on the Russian River.
  2. Matilde Nunez gripped the edge of her wooden chair and strained to watch the little girl as she grabbed her ruffled skirts and sashayed across the stage.
  3. Trans World Airlines owner Carl Icahn, who also has ruffled feathers, told a group of his executives, "He's going to go down in the history books as the airline equivalent of General Custer." Mr. Plaskett terms such criticism "outrageous."
  4. Saint Laurent also brought out some gorgeous multicolored harlequin blouses, and sexily fitted velvet jackets with elaborate embroidered appliques over full print short skirts with ruffled underskirts.
  5. Fans argue that black dresses are elegant and can be worn again, unlike the ruffled aqua or peach taffeta variety.
  6. There is an a cappella double chorus (Gounod adored Palestrina); elsewhere the smooth surface is ruffled by chromatic flurries, and there are hints (quite sinister in this context) of the whole-tone scale.
  7. The youth kick here became black workout suits, with black leather jackets, or with ruffled wraparound stoles and skirts for evening.
  8. Prince Aya, the youngest son of Emperor Akihito, married graduate student Kiko Kawashima in an elaborate ceremony on June 29. At an official picture-taking session after the wedding, the prince's hair was a little ruffled, and the princess smoothed it.
  9. The black velvet and chiffon gowns of Ben Yeung of Benny's Fashion and Design Center and the ruffled, pleated and beaded chiffon numbers by Patrick Li of Archee were anybody's dream dresses.
  10. However, it was pointed out by traders that the City had absorbed the latest bad news on the economy with minimum fuss. They said that, although the trade figures ruffled the stock market, they did little to upset the foreign exchange and bond markets.
  11. It was the recent sale of the manor house, named Chawton House, which ruffled a lot of feathers.
  12. With pointed tails or swallowtails, the jackets over knickers or fuller pants came out in hot-pepper red, aubergine orange or okra green, with big ruffled jabots for the aristocratic touch.
  13. And Guinness, whose shares have fallen 14 per cent since the interim results, is looking ruffled.
  14. Mrs. Perez de Cuellar, attired in a green and black Harlequin-like suit ruffled at neck and cuff, explained several of the works that have been donated to the international organization by member nations.
  15. All this has ruffled the real-estate market.
  16. Quick social diplomacy by Bush kept feathers from getting too ruffled over the lack of a meal.
  17. Wearing a red satin hat and jacket with a white ruffled collar, he kneels at a brass writing table, poised to entertain his guests. His "brain" is in brass cams and clockwork motors in a large chest underneath the table.
  18. The resemblance grows even stronger when he dons breeches, a waistcoat and a ruffled shirt.
  19. Somehow, it was almost a relief to see him for a moment with his composure slightly ruffled.
  20. The costume fitting is tedious, and the actresses' feathers are ruffled.
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