fashion
noun uk/ˈfæʃ.ən/ us/ˈfæʃ.ən/
(POPULAR STYLE)
A2 [ C or U ]（尤指服装、发式、妆容的）流行款式，时兴式样
a style that is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair, make-up, etc.
Long hair is back in fashion for men. 男士又时兴留长发了。
Fur coats have gone out of fashion. 皮草大衣已经过时了。
a programme with features on sport and fashion 以运动和时尚为主题的节目
She always wears the latest fashions. 她总是穿着最新款式的服装。
Synonyms: crazefadmania (STRONG INTEREST) mode (FASHION)style (FASHION)trend vogue
Compare: cult nounmania (STRONG INTEREST)
follow (a) fashion mainly UK 赶时髦，追随潮流
to do what is popular at the time
Many adults follow fashion in clothes and social opinions as much as their children do.
If you decide not to follow fashion and cut your hair short, you make yourself stand out even more.
Typical investors tend to follow fashion, buying shares that have recently risen in value.
Following a fashion for designer dog breeds has led to fewer dog adoptions from shelters.
They started to wear wigs, following a fashion set by the king.
like it's going out of fashion informal 大量快速地（使用）
If you use something like it's going out of fashion, you use large amounts of it very quickly.
Emma spends money like it's going out of fashion. 埃玛花钱如流水。
Unfortunately, the truck drinks petrol like it's going out of fashion.
The managers bought shares like it was going out of fashion.
I was slapping on sunscreen like it was going out of fashion.
He isn't the only star to spend money like it's going out of fashion.
- More examples
- We did a fashion shoot on the beach, with the girls modelling swimwear.
- Whatever the latest fashion trend, you can be sure Nicki will be wearing it.
- There's a double-page spread on the latest fashions.
- Our fashion editor gives you the lowdown on winter coats for this season.
- They made their money in the fashion business.
(MANNER)
[ S ]方式
a way of doing things
The rebel army behaved in a brutal fashion. 叛军行事残忍。
after a fashion mainly UK 还过得去，还算可以
If you can do something after a fashion, you can do it, but not well.
I can cook, after a fashion. 我会做饭，但做得不太好。
Paul played the piano and we all sang, after a fashion.
She followed in her aunt's footsteps, after a fashion, by becoming a journalist.
They have kept the publishing house running, after a fashion.
Despite growing up in poverty, he was educated after a fashion.
- More examples
- During the bomb scare, the customers were asked to proceed in an orderly fashion out of the shop.
- He gets on with things in his own peculiar fashion.
- Charles picked at his food in a bored fashion.
- The developers dealt with the problem in the time-honoured fashion, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.
- Paul, in typically rude fashion, told him he was talking rubbish.
fashion
verb [ T ] formal uk/ˈfæʃ.ən/ us/ˈfæʃ.ən/
手工制作
to make something using your hands
He fashioned a hat for himself from/out of newspaper. 他用报纸给自己做了一顶帽子。
Synonym: forge