词组 | apply |
释义 | apply If you apply to have something or do something, you write asking formally to be allowed to have it or do it. I've applied for another job. The repatriation process has now been going on for some time, but only about 30,000 - 40,000 have applied to go back. Apply has another meaning. If you apply something to a surface, you put it onto the surface or rub it into it. This is a formal use of apply, which usually occurs only in written instructions. Apply a little liquid wax polish. In conversation and in most kinds of writing, you do not say that you apply something. You say that you put it on, rub it on, rub it in, or spread it on. ...the cream that she put on to soothe her sunburn. Try a little methylated spirit rubbed on with a soft cloth. Rub in linseed oil to darken it. |
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