new
英 [nju?]
美[nu]
- adj. 新的，新鮮的；更新的；初見的
- adv. 新近
- n. (New)人名；(英)紐
英英釋意
- 1. not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered;
- "a new law"
- "new cars"
- "a new comet"
- "a new friend"
- "a new year"
- "the New World"
- 2. other than the former one(s); different;
- "they now have a new leaders"
- "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"
- "ready to take a new direction"
- 3. having no previous example or precedent or parallel;
- "a time of unexampled prosperity"
- 4. of a kind not seen before;
- "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
- 5. lacking training or experience;
- "the new men were eager to fight"
- "raw recruits"
- "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel"
- 6. of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
- 7. (often followed by `to') unfamiliar;
- "new experiences"
- "experiences new to him"
- "errors of someone new to the job"
- 8. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;
- "new potatoes"
- "young corn"
- 9. unaffected by use or exposure;
- "it looks like new"