peel

1. N-VAR The peel of a fruit such as a lemon or an apple is its skin. You can also refer to a peel. (果) 皮

...grated lemon peel. …磨碎了的檸檬皮。

...a banana peel. …一塊香蕉皮。

2. V-T When you peel fruit or vegetables, you remove their skins. 削皮

She sat down in the kitchen and began peeling potatoes. 她在廚房里坐下，開始削土豆。

3. V-T/V-I If you peel off something that has been sticking to a surface or if it peels off, it comes away from the surface. 剝掉; 剝落

One of the kids was peeling plaster off the wall. 其中一個孩子在剝墻上的灰泥。

It took me two days to peel off the labels. 我花了兩天時間才剝掉那些標簽。

Paint was peeling off the walls. 墻上的漆正在剝落。

4. V-I If a surface is peeling, the paint on it is coming away. 掉漆[usu cont]

Its once-elegant white pillars are peeling. 曾一度典雅的白色立柱在掉漆。

5. V-I If you are peeling or if your skin is peeling, small pieces of skin are coming off, usually because you have been burned by the sun. (人) 脫皮; (皮) 脫落[usu cont]

His face was peeling from sunburn. 他的臉因日曬而在脫皮。

6. N a long-handled shovel used by bakers for moving bread, in an oven (烤面包時用的)長柄鏟

7. N (in Britain) a fortified tower of the 16th century on the borders between England and Scotland, built to withstand raids (英國)防御堡塔; 16世紀，建于英格蘭和蘇格蘭交界處