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🇺🇸 /stˈaɪl/
🇬🇧 /staɪl/
style 的核心是“呈现事物的方式”：它既可以指写作、说话、艺术或行动的独特风格，也可以作动词表示按某种方式制作、称呼某人，或刻意表现得时髦有品位。
💡 记忆钩子
想象一支尖头的书写工具：它留下的不只是字迹，还留下了一个人的表达方式。于是 style 从古代的“书写尖笔”发展成“写作或艺术的风格”，再进一步表示“按某种风格制作、称呼或打扮自己”。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握名词“风格、表达方式”和动词“按某种方式设计”，再学习正式的“称作”和非正式的“装得很有派头”。
- style 不只是“时尚”；谈写作、音乐、建筑或说话方式时，也常常只是中性的“风格”。
📖 中文释义
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rare 尖头工具的古义📖 这是 style 的历史用法，指用来书写、刻写或留下痕迹的细长尖头工具；它体现了“用尖头工具留下表达”的最初形象。💡 通常只在历史文献或古代书写工具的语境中出现，例如“a style of iron”。现代英语中不要用它指普通的笔；普通书写工具应使用相应的现代词。countable historical uncountable
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rare 刻写用的尖笔📖 这里具体指用硬质材料在金属等表面刻字的尖笔或刻写工具，是“尖头书写工具”这一古义的较具体用法。💡 常见于历史性或考据性描述，通常和刻写材料、金属或碑牌等搭配出现。现代日常交流中几乎不会用 style 表示这种工具。countable uncountable
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core 表达风格📖 style 指一个人写作、说话或表达思想时形成的独特方式，尤其可以指被认为成熟、优秀或有特色的表达方式。💡 常用结构是“the style of + 作者或作品”和“write/speak in a certain style”；也可以说“a distinctive style”。style 在这里可数时强调一种具体风格，不可数时强调风格这一概念。broadly countable uncountableHer writing style is clear and easy to recognize.她的写作风格清晰而且很容易辨认。The article is written in a formal style.这篇文章采用了正式的写作风格。
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core 创作或呈现方式📖 style 也指建筑、绘画、音乐、设计或其他创作所采用的整体方式，包括外观、形式和给人的感觉；它就是把同一类事物“做成什么样”的方式。💡 常用结构是“in the style of + 人或流派”和“a style of architecture/art”；谈具体作品时可用“a modern style”或“different styles”。不要把 style 和单一的外观细节混为一谈，它通常指整体的创作方式。countable uncountableThe house combines a traditional style with modern materials.这座房子把传统风格和现代材料结合在一起。I like the simple style of this painting.我喜欢这幅画简洁的风格。
styles
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core 按某种风格设计📖 style 作动词时，可以表示按照某种形式、外观或风格来设计、制作或安排某物，也就是把“风格”施加到作品或事物上。💡 常用结构是“style + 宾语 + in/after + 某种方式”，例如表示把头发、房间或作品设计成某种样子。它比普通的“make”更强调形式和整体风格；不要把它误解为只与服装有关。transitiveThe designer styled the room in a clean, modern way.设计师把房间设计成简洁现代的风格。She styled her hair in loose waves for the event.她为活动把头发做成了松散的波浪形。
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common 正式称作📖 style 可以正式地给某人一个名称、头衔或身份称呼，意思接近“称为、称作”，重点是这个称呼被正式使用。💡 常用结构是“style + 人 + 名称或头衔”，也常见于被动结构“be styled + 名称”。这种用法正式、书面，日常介绍某人时通常使用“call”或“name”，不要把它理解成给人设计风格。formal transitiveHe was formally styled the new director of the institute.他被正式称为该研究所的新主任。
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common 为某人打造形象📖 在非正式语境中，style 表示为某人选择服装、发型或整体形象，使其看起来更有吸引力、更合适或更时髦。💡 常用结构是“style + 人”，也可以接具体的头发、服装或形象；主语通常是造型师、设计师或为他人安排形象的人。这个用法偏口语和时尚语境，不要和正式的“称作”混淆。informal transitiveA professional stylist styled the singer for the awards ceremony.专业造型师为这位歌手设计了颁奖典礼上的整体造型。
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rare 故意表现得很有派头📖 在美国非正式用法中，style 作不及物动词，表示一个人故意用动作、穿着或态度表现自己很有风格、很时髦或很有派头。💡 通常单独使用或接表示场合的短语，语气轻松，有时带调侃意味。它不是普通的“穿衣”或“行动”，而是强调刻意展示风格；正式写作中应避免使用。US informal intransitive
styles
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styling
participle,present
styled
participle,past
styled
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📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 12 组
make consistent with certain rules of style
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style
style a manuscript
上位: write
designate by an identifying term
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style
title
They styled their nation `The Confederate States'
上位: be known as, call, know as, name
make consistent with a certain fashion or style;
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style
Style my hair
style the dress
上位: create, make
a slender bristlelike or tubular process
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style
a cartilaginous style
上位: appendage, outgrowth, process
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
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stylus
style
he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus
上位: tool
distinctive and stylish elegance
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dash
elan
flair
panache
style
he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer
上位: elegance
how something is done or how it happens; ; ; ; ;
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manner
mode
style
way
fashion
her dignified manner
his rapid manner of talking
their nomadic mode of existence
in the characteristic New York style
a lonely way of life
in an abrasive fashion
上位: property
下位: artistic style, drape, fit, form, idiom, life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi, response, setup, signature, touch, wise
the popular taste at a given time; ;
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vogue
trend
style
leather is the latest vogue
he followed current trends
the 1920s had a style of their own
上位: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste
下位: bandwagon, fashion
a particular kind (as to appearance)
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style
this style of shoe is in demand
上位: form, kind, sort, variety
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
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style
上位: direction, instruction
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
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expressive style
style
all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper
上位: communication
下位: allegory, analysis, delivery, device, eloquence, expression, fluency, formulation, genre, grandiloquence, grandiosity, jargon, literary genre, magniloquence, manner of speaking, music genre, musical genre, musical style, ornateness, pathos, poetry, prose, rhetoric, self-expression, smoothness, speech, vein, writing style
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
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style
🌳 词源
名词源自拉丁语 stilus，原指尖头的书写工具，后来引申为书写方式和一般的风格；动词由名词发展而来。
The noun is derived from Middle English stile (“writing tool; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression; demeanour; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”) (compare semantic development to по́черк (póčerk, “handwriting, style”)), from Old French estile, or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument; writing tool; composition; characteristic mode of expression; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
*Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”)
* German Stiel (“handle; stalk”)
* Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”)
* Occitan estil
* Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”)
* Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).
🔄 变式
styled
past
styles
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styling
present
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