| 单词 | peg |
| 释义 | peg1 /peg; peg/ n 1 wooden or metal pin or bolt, usu pointed at one end, used to fasten parts of woodwork together. (木或金属的)栓; 钉。 s square peg in a round hole, a person unsuited to the position he fills. 不称职的人。 2 pin driven into the ground to hold a rope (a 'tent-peg), or fastened to a wall or door ('hat and 'coat pegs), or to mark a position or boundary. 系帐童的情; 挂衣帽的钉; 定位置或界限的榕。(buY sth) off the peg, (colloq) (buy clothes) ready-made (as if off a peg in a shop). (俗)(买)现成的(衣服)，(好像从店里的衣服钉上取下来的一样)。 3 'clothes-peg, device for holding laundered clothes in place on a line. 晒衣服的夹子。 4 (fig) theme, pretext or excuse: (喻)主题; 蓝词; 时： a peg on which to hang a speech- 演说的主逐。 5 wooden screw for tightening or loosening the string of a violin, etc. (提砰等用于调整弦线软紧的)轸; 木栓。咛 the illus .at string. 参看 string 之插| 囱。 .take sb 'down a peg (or two), humble him, 抑某人的傲气; 挫某人的锐气; 煞某人的威风。 6 piece of wood for stopping the vent of a cask, etc. (塞桶孔等的)木塞。 7 (colloq) wooden leg. (俗)木腿：义腿, |
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