1.in (your) shirtsleevesDCwearing a shirt but no jacket 只穿衬衣〔不穿外套〕
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in (your) shirtsleeves• Men in shirtsleeves and women in summer dresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisk trade.• He was in shirtsleeves, his jacket crumpled on a chair beside him.• I shivered with the cold and realized I was in shirtsleeves.• Most of the men were working in their shirtsleeves.
2.[countableC usually plural] the part of a shirt that covers your arm 衬衫袖子
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shirtsleeve• Ossie was standing there in waistcoat and shirtsleeves.• He had his shirtsleevesrolled up and his arms folded like piled-up hocks of ham.• Men in shirtsleeves and women in summerdresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisktrade.• I shivered with the cold and realized I was in shirtsleeves.• I took off my jacket and rolled up my shirtsleeves.• At the State House, men in their shirtsleeves were packingpapers into boxes.• People stroll in their shirtsleeves, and sit at sidewalk cafés.• These hands, and the crispwhiteshirtsleeves that lead away from them, are the only signs of me in the room.