1. 1雲杉;'spruce up' 打扮整潔、整修一下

    A type of tall evergreen tree with short needles, often used as a Christmas tree or for wood. As a phrase, 'to spruce something up' means to clean or improve its appearance, make it neater or more attractive, like 'spruce up the living room before guests arrive.'

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Sprucename

  • 1

    obsoletePrussia.

  • 2

    A surname.

  • 3

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 4

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 5

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 6

    A number of places in the United States:

sprucenoun/spɹuːs/

  • 1

    Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.

  • 2

    The wood of a spruce.

  • 3

    Made of the wood of the spruce.

    • That spruce table is beautiful!
  • 4

    obsoletePrussian leather; pruce.

spruceadj/spɹuːs/

  • 1

    Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).

    • Hovv often vvould the Svvaines prepare their Morrice & their May / To haue a ſight of her, vvhen all enamoured vvent their vvay? / The ſprevvſeſt Citie-Lads for her vvould faine the Countrie-aire, / And that their prouder Girles had but adultrate beauties ſvvaire, […]
    • [A] baker's boy in a white apron and blue jumpers went by carrying a basket of bread on his head; and from the nearby tobacconist's, a spruce young lieutenant dressed in a black uniform emerged lighting a cigarette.

spruceverb/spɹuːs/

  • 1

    To arrange neatly; tidy up.

  • 2

    To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).

  • 3

    To tease.

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