• n. 牛仔褲；工裝褲
• n. (Jeans)人名；(英、意)瓊斯

來自中古法語jean fustian,熱那亞厚棉布，來自古法語Jannes,即意大利城市Genoa.

jeans

jeans: [19] Jeans of the sort we would recognize today – close-fitting working trousers made of hard-wearing, typically blue cloth – emerged in America in the mid-19th century. But their antecedents have to be sought in a far distant place. The first known reference to trousers called jeans actually comes from mid-19thcentury England: ‘Septimus arrived flourishin’ his cambric, with his white jeans strapped under his chammy leather opera boots’, R S Surtees, Handley Cross 1843.

Why the name jeans? Because they were made of jean, a sort of tough twilled cotton cloth. This was short for jean fustian, a term first introduced into English in the mid-16th century, in which the jean represented a modification of Janne, the Old French name of the Italian city of Genoa. So jean fustian was ‘cotton fabric from Genoa’, so named because that was where it was first made.

jeans (n.)

see jean.

1. Leather jeans that are too big will make you look larger.

過于肥大的皮褲會讓你看起來塊頭更大。

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2. His mother looked ten years younger in jeans and flats.

他媽媽穿上牛仔褲和平跟鞋，看上去年輕了10歲。

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3. He peered at me like I'd just puked up on his jeans.

他打量著我，好像我剛剛吐在了他的牛仔褲上似的。

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4. Nicole loves wearing her diamonds, even with jeans and a white T-shirt.

妮科爾很喜歡戴她的鉆石首飾，即使穿的是牛仔褲和白色T恤衫。

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5. I rigged myself out in thick jeans and heavy belt.

我穿上厚厚的牛仔褲，系上重重的皮帶。

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