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(尤指掛在墻上展示的)畫框，鏡框
The frame of a picture or mirror is the wood, metal, or plastic that is fitted around it, especially when it is displayed or hung on a wall.
例句
Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.
埃絲特爾把母親的一張鑲銀框的照片掛在廚房壁爐臺上。
...a pair of picture frames.
一對畫框
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框;架;骨架;框架
The frame of an object such as a building, chair, or window is the arrangement of wooden, metal, or plastic bars between which other material is fitted, and which give the object its strength and shape.
例句
He supplied housebuilders with modern timber frames...
他給房屋建筑商提供了現代的木構架。
With difficulty he released the mattress from the metal frame, and groped beneath it...
他費了很大力氣才把床墊從金屬架上移開，然后在下面摸索。
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眼鏡框;眼鏡架
The frames of a pair of glasses are all the metal or plastic parts of it, but not the lenses.
例句
He was wearing new spectacles with gold wire frames.
他戴了一副新的金邊眼鏡。
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(人體的)骨架;(尤指)體形，體態
You can refer to someone's body as their frame, especially when you are describing the general shape of their body.
例句
Their belts are pulled tight against their bony frames.
他們的腰帶緊緊裹著瘦骨嶙峋的身體。
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(電影的)畫面，鏡頭
A frame of cinema film is one of the many separate photographs that it consists of.
例句
Standard 8mm projects at 16 frames per second.
標準的 8 毫米的膠片每秒放映16 組鏡頭。
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ADJ
(建筑)木制的，木結構的
A frame building is one in which pieces of wood form the most important part of the structure, rather than bricks or stone.
例句
He lives in a white-painted frame house behind a picket fence up in Connecticut.
他住在康涅狄格州北部一個漆成白色的木制房子里，屋子前面豎著尖樁籬柵。
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VERB
給…加框
When a picture or photograph is framed, it is put in a frame.
例句
The picture is now ready to be mounted and framed...
這幅畫現在可以裝裱加框了。
On the wall is a large framed photograph.
墻上掛著一張大幅的鑲框照片。
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VERB
給…鑲邊;給…做框
If an object is framed by a particular thing, it is surrounded by that thing in a way that makes the object more striking or attractive to look at.
例句
The swimming pool is framed by tropical gardens...
泳池周圍都是栽種熱帶花卉的花園。
An elegant occasional table is framed in the window.
一張雅致的供重大活動使用的餐桌被擺放在櫥窗里。
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VERB
創設，擬定，制定(規則、計劃或體系)
If someone frames something such as a set of rules, a plan, or a system, they create and develop it.
例句
After the war, a convention was set up to frame a constitution.
戰后，為制定憲法組織了一次會議。
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VERB
表達;表示
If someone frames something in a particular style or kind of language, they express it in that way.
例句
The story is framed in a format that is part thriller, part love story...
情節的展開模式既像驚險小說，又像愛情故事。
He framed this question three different ways in search of an answer.
為了尋求答案，他以 3 種不同方式提出了這個問題。
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VERB
作偽證;陷害;誣陷
If someone frames an innocent person, they make other people think that that person is guilty of a crime, by lying or inventing evidence.
例句
I need to find out who tried to frame me...
我得找出是誰企圖誣陷我。
He claimed that he had been framed by the police.
他聲稱自己被警察設計陷害了。
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PHRASE
在…考慮范圍內;有機會成為…
If someone is in the frame for something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it.
例句
We need a win to keep us in the frame for the title.
要想保住奪冠希望，我們還需要再贏一場比賽。