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借译 — meaning in English

jiè yì

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English meaning

  • flimsy adj Easily broken or damaged; not sturdy.
  • layer noun A single thickness of material covering a surface, or one level in a stack of such materials.

Senses

借译 is used for these senses in English:

  • flimsy (also, attributive, uncountable) Thin typing paper used together with carbon paper in a typewriter to make multiple copies of a document; (countable) a sheet of such paper.
  • layer (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.

flimsy — full definition

  1. adj Easily broken or damaged; not sturdy.
  2. adj Unconvincing or weak, especially describing an argument or excuse.

layer — full definition

  1. noun A single thickness of material covering a surface, or one level in a stack of such materials.
  2. noun A hen kept specifically for producing eggs.
  3. verb To arrange something in layers.
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