Word · Frequency #24465
tress
/tres/
noun
发辫；辫子
a hairdo made by braiding or twisting the hair
- 1.
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
头发编成的辫子、发髻或卷发；发卷。
- 2.
A long lock of hair.
一绺长发。
- 3.
A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
花结或花彩。
头发编成的辫子、发髻或卷发；发卷。；一绺长发。；花结或花彩。；一绺头发；头发
In use
For the wedding, she twisted her hair into an elegant tress.
The old portrait showed a woman with a long tress draped over her shoulder.
She practiced on a friend's hair until she could make a neat tress.
a tress of hair
与 a lock of hair 近义，但 tress 更偏文学用语。
She tucked a tress of hair behind her ear.
她把一绺头发掖到耳后。
one's [adjective] tresses
tresses 常用复数，统指女性的长发，多见于文学或修辞语体。
Her golden tresses shone in the sunlight.
她金色的长发在阳光下闪闪发光。
wear one's hair in tresses
in tresses 意为‘编成辫子’，与 in braids 同义。
Connections
Collocations
- golden tresses
- 金色长发
- The princess had long golden tresses.公主留着一头金色长发。
- flowing tresses
- 飘逸的长发
- Her flowing tresses caught the wind.她飘逸的长发随风飘动。
- a tress of hair
- 一绺头发
- She tucked a tress of hair behind her ear.她把一绺头发别到耳后。
- braided tresses
- 发辫
- The dancer wore braided tresses.舞者梳着发辫。
- long tresses
- 长发
- She brushed her long tresses before bed.她睡前梳理自己的长发。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
tress 谐音近似“垂丝”，想象一缕头发像垂下的丝线，记住“发辫/一绺头发”。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：文学描写、诗歌 tress 多用于文学性描写或诗歌，比较书面化；指一绺头发或发辫。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 tress (/tres/) 真正押韵的词：dress、press、stress、mess、less（韵尾均为 /es/）。注意 trees 拼写相似但发音为 /triːz/，并不押韵。
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.