spencer
spencer — 名詞
1. a short jacket for the upper body that reaches only down to the waist, often wor
短外套
僅長及腰部的短夾克
a short jacket for the upper body that reaches only down to the waist, often worn by women in the past or as a vintage-style garment
At the vintage market, Tariq found a woollen spencer trimmed with black ribbon.
Tariq 在二手市集找到一件鑲黑緞帶的羊毛短外套。
spencer as historical garment item
The tailor measured Camille for a velvet spencer to wear over her gown.
裁縫為 Camille 量身製作一件天鵝絨短外套，穿在禮服外面。
material collocation: velvet spencer / woollen spencer
Liang wore a black spencer to the formal dinner, matching it with a high collar.
Liang 穿黑色短外套出席正式晚宴，搭配高領襯衫。
Fashion historians say the spencer was popular among women in early nineteenth-century Europe.
時裝史學家指出，短外套在十九世紀初期的歐洲婦女間相當流行。
historical register
Meera stored her grandmother's embroidered spencer in a box with lavender sachets.
Meera 將祖母的刺繡短外套連同薰衣草香包一起收進盒子裡。
- woollen spencer
- velvet spencer
- silk spencer
- embroidered spencer
- black spencer
- bolero jacket
a short open-front jacket; more common in modern fashion, while 'spencer' sounds historical
- cropped jacket
a general term for any jacket ending above the waist; broader in meaning than 'spencer'
用法筆記
This term is now uncommon in everyday speech. In modern fashion, 'cropped jacket' or 'bolero jacket' is more frequently used for similar short jackets.
spencer — 慣用語
Herbert Spencer
idiom(1820–1903) an English philosopher who applied ideas of evolution to the study of society and is best known for the phrase 'survival of the fittest'
赫伯特·史賓賽（1820–1903），英國哲學家，將演化論應用於社會學說，以「適者生存」一詞廣為人知
Herbert Spencer argued that societies develop through competition, much like species in nature.
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- spencers名詞B2