pegged的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT掛鉤；掛釘

A peg is a small hook or knob that is attached to a wall or door and is used for hanging things on.

• His work jacket hung on the peg in the kitchen.

  他的工作服掛在廚房裡的掛鉤上。

N-COUNT（晾衣用的）衣夾

A peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.

N-COUNT（金屬或木製的）銷釘，楔子，栓

A peg is a small piece of wood or metal that is used for fastening something to something else.

• He builds furniture using wooden pegs instead of nails.

  他用木楔子取代釘子製作傢俱。

• ...the noise of the hammer striking the steel pegs.

  錘子敲擊鋼栓的噪音

VERB用銷釘（或楔子、木栓）固定

If you peg something somewhere or peg it down, you fix it there with pegs.

• ...trying to peg a double sheet on a washing line on a blustery day...

  大風天試圖用衣夾把雙人床單固定在晾衣繩上

• Peg down netting over the top to keep out leaves.

  用銷釘在頂上加固防護網，防止葉子落入。

VERB限定（價格、數量等）；把…固定在一定水平；使與…掛鉤

If a price or amount of something is pegged at a particular level, it is fixed at that level.

• Its currency is pegged to the dollar...

  其貨幣與美元掛鉤。

• UK trading profits were pegged at £40 million...

  英國的貿易利潤固定在4,000萬英鎊。

PHRASE殺…的威風；挫…的銳氣

If you say that someone should be brought down a peg or be taken down a peg, you mean that they should be made to realize that they are not so important or wonderful as they think they are.

• We thought it was time they were brought down a peg or two...

  我們認為是時候煞煞他們的囂張氣焰了。

• We'd have liked to see her taken down a peg, but not this way.

  我們樂意看到她殺威風，但不是用這種方法。

PHRASE（衣服）非定製的，成品的

Off-the-peg clothes are made in large numbers and sent to shops, not made specially for a particular person.

• ...an off-the-peg two-piece suit...

  兩件套西服成衣

• Instead of dining in top restaurants and wearing expensive suits, he likes to eat hamburgers and buys clothes off the peg.

  比起穿著昂貴的套裝到高檔飯店吃飯，他更喜歡吃漢堡、買成衣。

PHRASE方枘圓鑿；格格不入

If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are in a situation or doing something that does not suit them at all.

• Taylor is clearly the wrong man for the job — a square peg in a round hole.

  泰勒明顯不適合做這項工作——簡直就是方枘圓鑿。