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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。
发辫；辫子
tresses — plural of tress
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
发辫；辫子
a hairdo made by braiding or twisting the hair
She tucked a tress of hair behind her ear.
她把一绺头发掖到耳后。
头发编成的辫子、发髻或卷发；发卷。
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
一绺长发。
A long lock of hair.
花结或花彩。
A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
For the wedding, she twisted her hair into an elegant tress.
婚礼上，她把头发编成一个优雅的发辫。
The old portrait showed a woman with a long tress draped over her shoulder.
那幅旧画像上，一名女子有一条长辫子搭在肩上。
She practiced on a friend's hair until she could make a neat tress.
她在朋友头发上练习，直到能编出整洁的发辫。
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。
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。
in tresses 意为‘编成辫子’，与 in braids 同义。
The ladies wore their hair in long tresses.
那些女士把头发编成长长的发辫。
Not this
I found a tress in my soup.
Use this
I found a hair in my soup.
tress 指一绺头发、发绺或发辫，不是一根头发；一根头发要说 a hair。把“一根头发”说成 a tress 是受汉语“头发”一词不分单根与整体的影响。
Not this
Her tress is long and black.
Use this
Her tresses are long and black.
当 tress 表示“（女性的）头发”时，通常用复数形式 tresses 指整体头发；单数 a tress 只指一缕头发或一条发辫。要表达“她的头发又长又黑”，应把 tress 改为 tresses，并将 is 改为 are。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
金色长发
The princess had long golden tresses.
公主留着一头金色长发。
飘逸的长发
Her flowing tresses caught the wind.
她飘逸的长发随风飘动。
一绺头发
She tucked a tress of hair behind her ear.
她把一绺头发别到耳后。
发辫
The dancer wore braided tresses.
舞者梳着发辫。
长发
She brushed her long tresses before bed.
她睡前梳理自己的长发。
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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”。
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。
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。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.