sleeve

Word family

sleeve /sliːv/ noun [countableC]

1 DCthe part of a piece of clothing that covers all or part of your arm 袖子

a dress with long sleeves

长袖连衣裙

long-sleeved/short-sleeved etc

a short-sleeved shirt

短袖衬衫

2 have something up your sleeve informalPLAN to have a secret plan or idea that you are going to use later 有后招；有锦囊妙计

Don’t worry. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve.

别担心，他还有几个妙招没使出来呢。

Examples from the Corpus

have something up your sleeve• Don't worry. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve.

3. APMa stiff paper cover that a record is stored in 唱片套 SYN jacket

Examples from the Corpus

sleeve• Very suitable - high neck and nice long sleeves.• She lowered the sleeves, down, down, until they reached her wrists.• On completion, the top of the sleeve was not 44 centimetres.• But it is an astutely packaged and worthwhile collection none the less, with translations from the Zulu on the sleeve.• He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up.• Thick, dark hair curled around his face and his rolled-up sleeves revealed strong, well-muscled arms.

Origin sleeve

Old English sliefe

Chinese

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