envelope
n. 信封; 封皮; 包裹物
An envelope is the rectangular paper cover in which you send a letter to someone through the post.
If someone pushes the envelope, they do something to a greater degree or in a more extreme way than it has ever been done before.
There's a valuable place for fashion and design that pushes the envelope a bit...
在原有尺度上有所突破的時尚和設計受到人們的重視。
No cinema director had a more profound effect in pushing the envelope of acceptable family entertainment.
在挑戰家庭娛樂片的接受程度方面,沒有哪個電影導演比他的影響更深遠。
1. a flat rectangular paper container for papers
2. any wrapper or covering
3. a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
4. a natural covering (as by a fluid);
5. the maximum operating capability of a system;
6. the bag containing the gas in a balloon
the back of an envelope
粗略的估算(或計劃)
push the envelope (或 the edge of the envelope)
(非正式)幾近極致
push the envelope
增強技術系統的運轉能力
This old stamp isn't sticky any more; I shall have to gum it down onto the envelope.
這張舊郵票的背面沒黏性了, 我得用膠把它粘在信封上.
On the envelope is written: " from Wang ".
信封上寫著 “ 王緘 ”.
If you turn the envelope upside down, the key will fall out.
你如果把信封倒過來, 鑰匙就會掉出.
I folded the letter and then put it into the envelope.
我把信摺好後放進信封裡.
A key was enclosed in the envelope.
信封中裝有一把鑰匙.