framed

1. N-COUNT The frame of a picture or mirror is the wood, metal, or plastic that is fitted around it, especially when it is displayed or hung on a wall. 框架

Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece. 埃絲特爾把她母親的一張照片放在廚房壁爐架上的銀質(zhì)相框裡。

2. N-COUNT The frame of an object such as a building, chair, or window is the arrangement of wooden, metal, or plastic bars between which other material is fitted, and which give the object its strength and shape. 搆架

He supplied housebuilders with modern timber frames. 他爲(wèi)建房者提供了現(xiàn)代化的木制搆架。

With difficulty he released the mattress from the metal frame, and groped beneath it. 他費(fèi)了很大勁把牀墊從金屬架上卸下來，然後在下麪摸索一番。

3. N-COUNT The frames of a pair of glasses are all the metal or plastic parts of it, but not the lenses. 眼鏡框

He was wearing new glasses with gold wire frames. 他戴著一副新的金絲框眼鏡。

4. N-COUNT A frame of movie film is one of the many separate photographs that it consists of. 畫麪

Standard 8mm projects at 16 frames per second. 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的8毫米電影每秒放映16幀畫麪。

5. V-T When a picture or photograph is framed, it is put in a frame. 給 (圖畫或照片) 配框[usu passive]

The picture is now ready to be mounted and framed. 這幅畫現(xiàn)在可以裝裱、配框了。

6. V-T If an object is framed by a particular thing, it is surrounded by that thing in a way that makes the object more striking or attractive to look at. 環(huán)繞[usu passive]

The swimming pool is framed by tropical gardens. 遊泳池四周環(huán)繞著熱帶花園。

7. V-T If someone frames an innocent person, they make other people think that that person is guilty of a crime, by lying or inventing evidence. 誣陷[非正式]

I need to find out who tried to frame me. 我需要查出誰試圖誣陷我。

8. N-COUNT You can refer to someone's body as their frame, especially when you are describing the general shape of their body. 身軀

Their belts are pulled tight against their bony frames. 他們的腰帶緊裹著瘦骨嶙峋的軀躰。

9. N-COUNT an enumeration of a population for the purposes of sampling, esp as the basis of a stratified sample 人口抽樣底冊(cè)[statistics]