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plum

noun
🔊/plʌm/
🔊/plʌm/
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  1. [countable] a soft round fruit with smooth red or purple skin, that is sweet inside with a large flat seed李子；梅子
    • a plum tree李树
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  2. [uncountable, countable] a dark colour between red and purple 紫红色
    3. Word OriginOld English plūme, from medieval Latin pruna, from Latin prunum, from Greek prou(m)non ‘plum’.

plum

adjective
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  1. (of a job, etc.工作等) considered very good and worth having称心的；值得拥有的
    • She's landed a plum job at the BBC.她在英国广播公司谋得一份称心如意的工作。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPlum is used with these nouns:
    • job
    • role
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    Word OriginOld English plūme, from medieval Latin pruna, from Latin prunum, from Greek prou(m)non ‘plum’.