Word · Frequency #24546
pinafore
围裙式无袖连衣裙；儿童罩裙
A sleeveless dress, often like an apron, worn over other clothes, especially by young girls.
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A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes, and most often worn by young girls as an overdress.
一种无袖连衣裙,类似围裙,通常穿在其他衣物外,多为年轻女孩作为外衣。
一种无袖连衣裙,类似围裙,通常穿在其他衣物外,多为年轻女孩作为外衣。；围巾；围裙；围涎
In use
She wore a cotton pinafore over her blouse.
The little girl's pinafore was covered in flour after baking.
For the school play, the costume designer chose a classic pinafore for the maid character.
wear a pinafore
The little girl wore a pinafore over her dress.
小女孩在连衣裙外面穿了一件围裙式无袖连衣裙。
a pinafore over [clothes]
She tied a pinafore over her school uniform to keep it clean.
她在校服外面系了一条罩裙以保持校服干净。
put on a pinafore
Before painting, the child put on a pinafore.
画画前，孩子穿上了一件罩裙。
Common mistakes
The little girl is wearing pinafore.The little girl is wearing a pinafore.
pinafore 是可数名词单数，前面需要不定冠词 a 表示“一件”，不能裸用单数可数名词。
A pinafore girl is playing in the yard.A girl in a pinafore is playing in the yard.
英语中表示“穿（着）……的人”常用“a person in + 服装”结构，名词 pinafore 不能直接放在另一个名词前作定语；这是受汉语“围裙女孩”语序影响产生的错误。
Connections
Collocations
- wear a pinafore
- 穿围裙式连衣裙
- The little girl wore a white pinafore over her dress.那个小女孩在裙子外面穿了一件白色围裙式连衣裙。
- pinafore dress
- 围裙式连衣裙
- She bought a denim pinafore dress for the summer.她买了一条夏天穿的牛仔围裙式连衣裙。
- school pinafore
- 学校罩裙
- All the pupils wore grey school pinafores.所有小学生都穿着灰色的学校罩裙。
- cotton pinafore
- 棉布围裙式连衣裙
- The child had on a simple cotton pinafore.这孩子穿着一件简单的棉布围裙式连衣裙。
- little girl in a pinafore
- 穿围裙式连衣裙的小女孩
- A little girl in a pinafore was playing in the garden.一个穿着围裙式连衣裙的小女孩在花园里玩耍。
Pop culture & quotes
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想 pin（别针）和 fore（前面）：围裙像用别针别在身前，就是小女孩穿的 pinafore。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：儿童服装描述、校服款式讨论、服装裁剪与设计 pinafore 通常指穿在其他衣物外面的无袖连衣裙或罩裙，多用于服装描述、校服或裁剪语境，属于中性词，但比较常见于书面或专门介绍；日常口语中不一定是最常用的说法。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词的结尾都有 /ɔːr/ 或 /fɔːr/：fore 与 four 同音，more、door 的韵母与 fore 相同；before、therefore 的 -fore 也读 /fɔːr/。目标词 pinafore 按所给音标为 /ˈpinəfɒː/，所以这组词仅作拼写/音近联想，不算严格押韵。另注意拼写相似的 pine（/paɪn/）读音不同，pinafore 中的 pin 不是 pine。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY, WORDNET.