N-UNCOUNT 纸 Paper is a material that you write on or wrap things with. The pages of this book are made of paper.
He wrote his name down on a piece of paper for me... 他把他的名字写在一张纸上交给我。
She sat at the table with pen and paper. 她拿着纸笔坐在桌旁。
...a sheet of pretty wrapping paper. 漂亮的包装纸
...a paper bag. 纸袋
N-COUNT (一份)报纸 A paper is a newspaper.
I might get a paper in the village... 我或许能在村子里找到一份报纸。
I'll cook and you read the paper. 我做饭,你看报纸。
N-COUNT (总称)报纸 You can refer to newspapers in general as the paper or the papers .
You can't believe everything you read in the paper... 报纸上看到的东西不能全信。
There's been a lot in the papers about the problems facing stepchildren. 报纸上有很多关于继子女所面临的问题的报道。
N-PLURAL 材料;资料;文件 Your papers are sheets of paper with writing or information on them, which you might keep in a safe place at home.
Her papers included unpublished articles and correspondence. 她的资料包括未发表的文章和信件。
N-PLURAL (证明身份的)证件 Your papers are official documents, for example your passport or identity card, which prove who you are or which give you official permission to do something.
A young Moroccan stopped by police refused to show his papers... 一位被警察拦下的摩洛哥青年拒绝出示他的证件。
They have arrested four people who were trying to leave the country with forged papers. 他们已经逮捕了4名企图利用伪造证件离境的人。
N-COUNT 论文 A paper is a long, formal piece of writing about an academic subject.
He just published a paper in the journal Nature analyzing the fires. 他刚刚在《自然》杂志上发表了一篇分析火灾的论文。
ADJ 书面的;账面的 Paper agreements, qualifications, or profits are ones that are stated by official documents to exist, although they may not really be effective or useful.
They expressed deep mistrust of the paper promises... 他们对书面承诺表现出极度的不信任。
We're looking for people who have experience rather than paper qualifications. 我们要找有经验的人,而不是有文凭的人。
VERB 给…贴墙纸 If you paper a wall, you put wallpaper on it.
We papered all four bedrooms... 我们把4个卧室都贴了墙纸。
We have papered this bedroom in softest grey... 我们给这个卧室贴上了极柔和的灰色壁纸。
The room was strange, the walls half papered, half painted. 那个房间很奇怪,墙壁一半贴壁纸,一半刷涂料。
PHRASE 以书面形式;在纸上 If you put your thoughts down on paper, you write them down.
It is important to get something down on paper... 把一些东西写在纸上很重要。
It was the first time I had put it all down on paper. I found it helped. 这是我第一次把所有的东西都写在纸上,我觉得这有帮助。
PHRASE 在字面上;理论上 If something seems to be the case on paper, it seems to be the case from what you read or hear about it, but it may not really be the case.
On paper, I am the healthiest man alive, yet I feel permanently unwell. 理论上,我是活着的最健康的人,但是我总感觉不舒服。
The family is estimated to have been worth, on paper at least, more than £1.1billion. 据估计,这个家族理论上至少拥有11亿英镑以上的财富。
毫无价值;一纸空文 If you say that a promise, an agreement, or a guarantee is not worth the paper it's written on, you mean that although it has been written down and seems to be official, it is in fact worthless because what has been promised will not be done.