braces的中文翻譯是什麼意思

VERB使做好準備（面對不快的事或困難）

If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.

• He braced himself for the icy plunge into the black water...

  他做好了準備要跳進冰冷的髒水裡。

• She braced herself, as if to meet a blow.

  她嚴陣以待，彷彿準備面對打擊。

VERB（為保持平衡或避免摔倒）使緊靠

If you brace yourself against something or brace part of your body against it, you press against something in order to steady your body or to avoid falling.

• Elaine braced herself against the dresser and looked in the mirror...

  伊萊恩緊貼著衣櫥照鏡子。

• He braced his back against the wall.

  他後背緊靠在牆上。

VERB繃緊（肩或膝）

If you brace your shoulders or knees, you keep them stiffly in a particular position.

• He braced his shoulders as the snow slashed across his face.

  雪花如刀割般刮在他的臉上，他繃緊了雙肩。

VERB支撐；加固

To brace something means to strengthen or support it with something else.

• Overhead, the lights showed the old timbers, used to brace the roof.

  燈光照亮了頭頂上支撐屋頂的舊房梁。

N-COUNT一對；一雙

You can refer to two things of the same kind as a brace of that thing. The plural form is also brace .

• ...a brace of bottles of Mercier Rose champagne.

  兩瓶瑪喜爾玫瑰香檳

• ...a few brace of grouse.

  幾對松雞

N-COUNT（用以加固或支撐身體某部位的）支架，托架

A brace is a device attached to a part of a person's body, for example to a weak leg, in order to strengthen or support it.

• He wore leg braces after polio in childhood...

  他幼時得過小兒麻痺症後雙腿安上了支架。

• She wears a neck brace.

  她戴著頸託。

N-COUNT牙齒矯正器；牙箍

A brace is a metal device that can be fastened to a child's teeth in order to help them grow straight.

N-PLURAL（褲子的）揹帶，吊帶

Braces are a pair of straps that pass over your shoulders and fasten to your trousers at the front and back in order to stop them from falling down.

N-COUNT大括號

Braces or curly braces are a pair of written marks that you place around words, numbers, or parts of a computer code, for example to indicate that they are connected in some way or are separate from other parts of the writing or code.