frame /freɪm/ CET4 TEM4 ( framing, framed, frames )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT 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. 框架

  例：

  Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.

  埃丝特尔把她母亲的一张照片放在厨房壁炉架上的银质相框里。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT 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. 构架

  例：

  He supplied housebuilders with modern timber frames.

  他为建房者提供了现代化的木制构架。

  例：

  With difficulty he released the mattress from the metal frame, and groped beneath it.

  他费了很大劲把床垫从金属架上卸下来，然后在下面摸索一番。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT The frames of a pair of glasses are all the metal or plastic parts of it, but not the lenses. 眼镜框

  例：

  He was wearing new glasses with gold wire frames.

  他戴着一副新的金丝框眼镜。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT A frame of movie film is one of the many separate photographs that it consists of. 画面

  例：

  Standard 8mm projects at 16 frames per second.

  标准的8毫米电影每秒放映16帧画面。

• 5. 

  V-T When a picture or photograph is framed, it is put in a frame. 给 (图画或照片) 配框 [usu passive]

  例：

  The picture is now ready to be mounted and framed.

  这幅画现在可以装裱、配框了。

• 6. 

  V-T 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. 环绕 [usu passive]

  例：

  The swimming pool is framed by tropical gardens.

  游泳池四周环绕着热带花园。

• 7. 

  V-T If someone frames an innocent person, they make other people think that that person is guilty of a crime, by lying or inventing evidence. 诬陷 [非正式]

  例：

  I need to find out who tried to frame me.

  我需要查出谁试图诬陷我。

• 8. 

  N-COUNT You can refer to someone's body as their frame, especially when you are describing the general shape of their body. 身躯

  例：

  Their belts are pulled tight against their bony frames.

  他们的腰带紧裹着瘦骨嶙峋的躯体。

• 9. 

  N-COUNT an enumeration of a population for the purposes of sampling, esp as the basis of a stratified sample 人口抽样底册 [statistics]