ldoce_149_ihat /hæt/ ●●● S1 W3 noun [countableC] 1 DCCa piece of clothing that you wear on your head 帽子 Maria was wearing a beautiful new hat. 玛丽亚戴着一顶漂亮的新帽子。
straw/cowboy/bowler etc hat 草帽/牛仔帽/常礼帽等
in a hat a man in a fur hat 戴毛皮帽子的男人
bowler-hatted/top-hatted etc (=wearing a bowler hat, top hat etc) 戴常礼帽的/戴高顶礼帽等的 a bowler-hatted gentleman 一位戴常礼帽的绅士
→5 See picture of top hat 高顶礼帽, baseball cap 棒球帽, bonnet 包头软帽 ... →4 See picture of 见图 hat 2. keep something under your hat informalSECRET to keep something secret 对某事保密keep something under your hat• Rather than wear your heart on your sleeve, you keep it under your hat. 3 be wearing your teacher’s/salesman’s etc hat (also have your teacher’s/salesman’s etc hat on) informalWORK/DO WORK to be performing the duties of a teacher etc, which are not your only duties 干着老师/销售员等的工作〔指做不止一份工作〕 I’m a manager now and only put my salesman’s hat on when one of our sales reps is having real problems. 我现在当经理了,只有当我们的销售代表遇到真正的难题时我才做销售工作。
4 I take my hat off to somebody (also hats off to somebody) informalADMIRE used to say you admire someone very much because of what they have done 我向某人致敬〔表示钦佩某人〕 I take my hat off to Ian – without him we’d have never finished this project on time. 我向伊恩致敬——没有他我们绝不可能准时完成这个项目。
I take my hat off to somebody• I take my hat off to those front row men.• Whatever it was though, I take my hat off to Babs.• Jan starts hers at four, for which I take my hat off to her. 5 be drawn/pulled/picked out of the/a hat if someone’s name is drawn out of a hat, they are chosen, for example as the winner of a competition, because their name is the first one that is taken out of a container containing the names of all the people involved 随机抽出 The first correct entry out of the hat on September 2nd will win a prize. 9月2日第一个被抽中并且答案正确者将赢得奖品。
6. pass the hat around GETto collect money from a group of people, especially in order to buy someone a present 〔尤指一群人为了给某人买礼物而〕凑钱pass the hat around• Airbus will anyway soon be passing the hat around again for an enormous 700-seat aeroplane, much bigger than the Boeing 747. 7. throw/toss your hat into the ring to say publicly that you will compete in an election or for a job 正式宣布参加竞选[应聘] → hard hat, old hat, → at the drop of a hat at drop2(5), → I’ll eat my hat at eat(8), → hang up your hat at hang up, → be talking through your hat at talk1(29)