fray

单词fray

基本解释

v.: （使织物边沿）磨损；恼火
n.: 争辩（尤指激烈或视为检验能力的）
网络: 吵架；冲突；争论

权威解释

• （使织物边沿）磨损，磨散:

  if clothfrays or sthfrays it, the threads in it start to come apart

• （使）烦躁，恼火:

  if sb"s nerves or temperfrays or sthfrays them, the person starts to get irritated or annoyed

• 开始卷边；脱线脚；分崩离析；失败:

  to start to come apart or to fail

• 打斗，竞争，争辩（尤指激烈或视为检验能力的）:

  a fight, a competition or an argument, especially one that is exciting or seen as a test of your ability

英汉解释

• 擦碎

• 磨断

• 擦伤

• 刺激;恼火;高度紧张

• 使(关系、神经等)紧张

• 〔古语〕吓唬,使惊恐

• 〔古语〕吵架,打架

• 被磨损,被擦断

• 擦,磨;磨损(布边等),擦破(绳子的末端)以致纤维散开

• 冲突

• 垫

• 争论;吵架

• 争论,辩论

• (织物等的)磨损处

• 吵闹;打架

• 吵闹;战斗

词性分析

• 过去分词：frayed

• 现在分词：fraying

• 第三人称单数：frays

同义词

v.unravelravelwearwear outtattern.fightargumentquarrelfracasdispute

反义词

v.mend

例句

• But the units of the regular army that defected seem to have stayed largely out of the fray, leaving the fighting to untrained youths.

  但是，投效反抗军的正规军单位大致上似乎隔岸观火，将战斗交给未受训练的年轻人。

• A recent announcement by the Pentagon that it was throwing two armed Predator drones into the fray may also have had a psychological impact.

  五角大楼近期宣布，正投入两架武装雄蜂“捕食者”战斗机到这场争端之中，这也许已对反叛分子带来了心理冲击。

• Then, just as things were beginning to calm down, Nevada"s Hispanics waded into the fray.

  紧接着，就在事情刚刚开始平静下来的时候，内华达州的西班牙后裔猛烈的加入了战团。

• The fabric of globalization, which had been stitched together around the so-called Washington Consensus, began to fray.

  经由所谓的华盛顿共识所建立起来的全球化结构开始破裂了。

• It was a gallant fight, and you and he have made a friend of me by it, for I love to see a well-fought fray.

  打得漂亮！这下子你和他是我的朋友了。我就喜欢这种拼得你死我活的战斗。

• It"s just notable to see such a prominent market figure jumping into this strange fray.

  只不过是觉得，一位对市场如此重要的人物加入这场奇怪的纷争，是值得关注的。

• A lone police officer is seen for a moment then, perhaps wisely deciding for his own sake to stay out the fray.

  一名警察看了一会，可能是认为躲开人群才是明智的选择。

• Prior to the sixth edition, he had tried to stay out of that fray and rely on his network of friends to defend his ideas.

  在第六版之前，他一直都在试图避免这些争论，依靠自己的朋友圈来捍卫自己的思想。

• Even if you make a conscious effort to stay out of the fray, it"s almost impossible not to be sucked in.

  即使你有意识地努力避开冲突，但要完全不卷入其中几乎是不可能的。

• Like most big life insurers, Aviva did enter the fray with one distinct advantage. It had already had a practice run.

  英杰华和多数大型人寿保险公司一样，在加入战局的时候拥有一个特别的优点——历经实战。