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bob

verb
🔊/bɒb/
🔊/bɑːb/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bob
🔊/bɒb/
🔊/bɑːb/
he / she / it bobs
🔊/bɒbz/
🔊/bɑːbz/
past simple bobbed
🔊/bɒbd/
🔊/bɑːbd/
past participle bobbed
🔊/bɒbd/
🔊/bɑːbd/
-ing form bobbing
🔊/ˈbɒbɪŋ/
🔊/ˈbɑːbɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] to move or make something move quickly up and down, especially in water（使在水中）上下快速移动，摆动
    • an old cigarette packet bobbing along in the current顺水流摆动漂走的旧香烟盒
    • bob up and down Tiny boats bobbed up and down in the harbour.小船在港湾中颠簸。🔊🔊
    • bob something (up and down) She bobbed her head nervously.她紧张地不断点头。🔊🔊
    • The maid bobbed a curtsy.女仆挥舞着屈膝礼。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • gently
    • slightly
    • about
    • …
    phrases
    • bob up and down
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  2. [transitive] bob something to cut somebody’s hair so that it is the same length all the way around把（头发）剪成短头发Topics Appearancec2
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    3. Word Originverb sense 1 late Middle English: of unknown origin. verb sense 2 late Middle English (denoting a bunch or cluster): of unknown origin.

bob

noun
🔊/bɒb/
🔊/bɑːb/
 Idioms
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  1. a quick movement down and up of your head and body快速的点头（或鞠躬）
    • a bob of the head点头
  2. a style of a woman’s hair in which it is cut the same length all the way around（女式）齐短发型
    • She wears her hair in a bob.她留齐短发。🔊🔊
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  3. (plural bob)
     (informal) an old British coin, the shilling, worth 12 old pence先令（英国旧制硬币，等于 12 旧便士）
    • That'll cost a few bob (= a lot of money).那东西很值钱。🔊🔊
  4. (British English also bobsleigh, North American English also bobsled)
     a racing sledge (= a vehicle for two or more people that slides over snow) 大雪橇（供两人或以上比赛用）
    5. Word Originnoun sense 1 late Middle English: of unknown origin. noun sense 2 and noun sense 4 late Middle English (denoting a bunch or cluster): of unknown origin. noun sense 3 late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.
Idioms
bits and pieces/bobs
  1. (British English, informal) small objects or items of various kinds零七碎八；零星物品
    • She stuffed all her bits and pieces into a bag and left.她把她零零碎碎的东西都塞进了一只包里就走了。🔊🔊
    • I just need to get a few bits and pieces at the supermarket.我就在超市买几样零碎的东西。

Bob

noun
🔊/bɒb/
🔊/bɑːb/
Idioms
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  1. a first name for boys, short for Robert
Idioms
Bob’s your uncle
  1. (British English, informal) used to say how easy and quick it is to do a particular task易如反掌
    • Press here and Bob's your uncle! It's disappeared.按一下这里就成了！消失了。🔊🔊