| 单词 | stripped-down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstripped-down 4. stripped-down adj., that has had all superfluous or extraneous parts removed; also figurative. Esp. (originally U.S.) applied to a motor vehicle so adapted in order to improve engine performance. Also of a machine: disassembled, dismantled. Cf. strip v.1 8. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > taken apart unpieced1483 unmassed1847 stripped-down1946 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > with non-essential parts removed stripped-down1946 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [adjective] > not in operation standing1697 stripped-down1973 1946 Sat. Evening Post 14 Sept. 14/2 Today a hot rod is a hopped-up, stripped-down flivver. 1958 Times 24 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. iv/4 In 1959, General Motors will introduce a small, stripped-down Chevrolet, which will be billed as a ‘new’ small car. 1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts 494 ‘Kernels.’ This term is applied to stripped-down nucleuses [of sentences]. 1973 A. MacVicar Painted Doll Affair vi. 66 A pimpled hairy youth in overalls wriggled out from underneath a stripped-down car. 1975 New Yorker 7 July 78/3 ‘Blue Lou’ is short, stripped-down, and full of business. 1978 Archit. Design 5 June 310/2 The stripped-down classicism promoted by men [sc. architects] like Burnet and Richardson. 1979 J. Gardner Nostradamus Traitor xlix. 237 They travelled in a stripped-down Heinkel 111. 1980 J. Cartwright Horse of Darius v. 66 He laid out the stripped-down Kalashnikov, the plasticine, the detonators. < as lemmas |
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