英语词汇“chaperone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

chap·er·one or chap·er·on

(shăpə-rōn′)

1. A guide or companion whose purpose is to ensure propriety or restrict activity: "to see and feel the rough edges of the society ... without the filter of official chaperones" (Philip Taubman).

2. An older person who attends and supervises a social gathering for young people.

3. A person, especially an older or married woman, who accompanies a young unmarried woman in public.

4. Any of a diverse group of proteins that assist macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, to assemble and fold into the proper three-dimensional structure as they are being synthesized. Also called molecular chaperone.

tr.v. chaper·oned, chaper·on·ing, chaper·ones

To act as chaperone to or for. See Synonyms at accompany.

[French chaperon, from chaperon, hood (since a respectable person who accompanies a young woman shields her from unwanted advances like a hood), from Old French, diminutive of chape, cape, head covering; see CHAPE.]

chaper·on′age (-rō′nĭj) n.

单词	chaperone
释义	chap·er·one or chap·er·on (shăpə-rōn′) n. 1. A guide or companion whose purpose is to ensure propriety or restrict activity: "to see and feel the rough edges of the society ... without the filter of official chaperones" (Philip Taubman). 2. An older person who attends and supervises a social gathering for young people. 3. A person, especially an older or married woman, who accompanies a young unmarried woman in public. 4. Any of a diverse group of proteins that assist macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, to assemble and fold into the proper three-dimensional structure as they are being synthesized. Also called molecular chaperone. tr.v. chaper·oned, chaper·on·ing, chaper·ones To act as chaperone to or for. See Synonyms at accompany. [French chaperon, from chaperon, hood (since a respectable person who accompanies a young woman shields her from unwanted advances like a hood), from Old French, diminutive of chape, cape, head covering; see CHAPE.] chaper·on′age (-rō′nĭj) n.
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