1Remove all coverings from.

他们把床上的被褥全拿走了。

1. 1.1 Remove the clothes from (someone)
   脱去；剥光…的衣服
   with object and complement the man had been stripped naked

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The CSKA fans managed to strip their players almost naked, leaving them with nothing but their shorts.
   • They strip him naked throw him on the muddy track and tell him to run laps.
   • And then they took me in another room and stripped me naked again.
   • They stripped us naked to make sure we weren't hiding anything else.
   • A few months before that, a 13-year-old student was stripped naked and paraded down the halls of her school.
   • I was stripped of my clothes, my innocence, and my life.
   • And he tells the story how he was stripped naked by the Gestapo to see if he was circumcised.
   • You couldn't be more vulnerable if you were stripped naked and wheeled out on a trestle table for the waiting room to gawp at.
   • Dorian stripped to shorts and a tank top and he was rock hard and dry.
   • His head and eyebrows were shaved, and he was stripped to the waist.
   • A feeding frenzy ensued - within minutes the unfortunate man was stripped of his clothes.
   • There were bruises all over her body, and she had been stripped naked.
   • The second time I was arrested, I was even stripped naked in a room in the regional Parliament in Banda Aceh.
   • She looked down and realized that she was stripped naked.
   • At one point a women was stripped to her bra in front of us.
   • She already stripped him naked before the session.
   • He was stripped of all clothes save for his shoes, the papers in his room in complete disarray.
   • He was stripped naked and dragged kicking and screaming to the lawn directly in front of City Hall.
   • I had never felt this naked, even when the pirates had stripped me for my cleaning earlier that very day.
   • Malcolm stood still as his servant proceeded to strip him naked and dress him in fairly complicated clothes.
2. 1.2no object Take off one's clothes.
   脱光衣服，脱去衣服
   I was tempted to strip off for a swim

   我真想脱光衣服下水游泳。

   she stripped down to her underwear

   她脱得只剩内衣。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I slowly strip off my clothes and get into the hot shower.
   • I stripped off to my boxers and curled up under the covers.
   • Quickly stripping down to my underwear and bra, I dashed towards my closet.
   • On an impulse you strip off all your clothes, swim into the centre of the lake and turn onto your back.
   • The boys quickly stripped down to boxers and swan dived into the pond.
   • Apparently he didn't want to strip in front of hundreds of screaming girls.
   • Despite his efforts, however, Gooden stripped to his underpants and jumped.
   • First, the women stripped, removing all clothing, jewelry and glasses; they were photographed while the men stayed clothed.
   • Chris grinned and quickly stripped down to his plain black boxers before jumping into the hot tub.
   • Is she the exhibitionist who stripped to her bra as she danced on the tables of pubs in Grimsby?
   • He had stripped naked in an attempt to free himself from the pesky pests.
   • Realizing this, we strip off our clothes and dance through the yard.
   • Surely she didn't expect her to strip in front of a complete stranger.
   • The Marine continued stripping, removing his belt.
   • I stripped off my clothes and stepped in to a waterfall of hot water.
   • So they all stripped naked, this included all piercing, and placed their clothes on the table.
   • I stripped sown to my bathing suit and ran towards the lake but I stopped suddenly at the edge.
   • Once I get home, I strip off my clothes, toss them into the hamper and shower.
   • He was just going to wait for her to strip to her underwear.
   • He pulled out the warmest clothes he could find, tossing them on the bed before quickly stripping himself of his pajamas.

   Synonyms

   undress, strip off, take one's clothes off, remove one's clothes, shed one's clothes, unclothe, disrobe, strip naked, denude oneself, expose oneself, reveal oneself, uncover oneself

   informal peel off

   dated divest oneself of one's clothes
3. 1.3 Pull or tear off (a garment or covering)
   剥去，除去（衣服，外皮）
   she stripped off her shirt

   她脱去衬衫。

   figurative strip away the hype and you'll find original thought

   〈喻〉揭掉宣传外衣你就会知道原来的想法。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • ‘Anytime anywhere,’ Merrick sneered as he stripped his shirt and followed her in.
   • Julie has tears streaming down her face; Blaze just looks at his little brother as he strips his shirt off.
   • Several of the Marines stripped off their wet shirts and changed into their spares.
   • She stripped the dress off and ran to her dresser.
   • We use products that remove ‘bad’ oil and surface skin - thereby stripping away a crucial protective barrier.
   • I rushed over to him, throwing my helmet off and stripping my gloves and jacket.
   • Blood was on his jacket, and as he stripped his gloves off his hands, he stared at the three.
   • He stripped his coat off and marched down the empty hallway.
   • Upon stripping the dress from her lean body, Fionnabhair pulled the pants up around her hips and the tunic over her head.
   • ‘Black Mountain poetry is stripped bare of everything,’ an acolyte of Frank O'Hara said.
   • Then I took the wire cutters and stripped the casing off of the wire that was attached to the gate lock.
   • His style got results very quickly, but it was also stripping the lining from his stomach.
   • I stripped my clothing off, donned a lab coat, and drove home where I left the clothes in the coal shed to ‘cool’ off.
   • He stripped the leather gloves from his hands and pounded his fist into his steel palm with a clanking thud.
   • He sighed, too tired to think anymore, and stripped off his shirt.
   • The acceleration strips the lining of the artery away faster than it can be replenished.
   • He stripped the suit off, so he was only wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a thin shirt.
   • I stripped his shirt, and examined the deep wounds on his chest.
   • She stripped the sweater and jeans, and dumped them in her locker.
   • She quickly stripped her shirt when she got into her bedroom and grabbed one from her walk in closet.
   • Within seconds he stripped off the fancy garment and flung it at Sir Miley.
4. 1.4 Remove bark and branches from (a tree).
   剥去（树皮）；修剪（树枝）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • These creatures are so efficient that a colony of them can strip a citrus tree of its leaves in a single night.
   • She'd tried to convince him to strip the bark off, but listened to reason when Jinx explained that the bark worked as kindling.
   • To prepare the tree for the sculpting process its bark would first be stripped away.
   • She closed her great jaws over the tree and stripped the branches and leaves from the main trunk.
   • Mike, Jane, Steve and Tara volunteered to help me strip the tree.
   • She pulled a small branch off a tree and began stripping it of its leaves.
   • Some have become overgrown, while others have been lost forever due to grazing animals stripping bark from the trees.
   • Wear marks on the tusks suggest they were used to strip bark from trees, and possibly to dig up plants.
   • The bird strips the bark off dying trees with its powerful beak to get to insect grubs beneath.
   • We have a 4-month-old puppy that chewed and stripped the bark off a young cypress tree.
   • Six eucalypts were removed after metre wide sections of bark were stripped from the year-old trees in September last year.
   • You might encounter one shoving over a tree or stripping it of leaves and bark.
   • It used its large bill to strip the bark from trees that had recently died, exposing the beetle larvae that served as its dietary staple.
   • I mean, the trees are stripped of their leaves and branches, but also the storm surge has had the most devastating result.
   • They strip the bark off trees to get at the sweet, sappy tissue underneath, damaging it badly.
   • Beavers fell trees, elephants trample plants, ants strip trees of bark, moles dig tunnels, and so the list goes on.
   • The bird was at the very tip of a branch stripped bare of foliage.
   • The wood, long ago stripped of its bark and made brittle by countless freezes, snaps and crumbles in his hand.
   • They strip bark off of dying trees with their powerful ivory-colored bills to reach the bugs and larvae beneath.
   • A mature tree in Ballina's town park has been stripped of its bark and left to die after being attacked on Wednesday night last.
5. 1.5 Remove (paint or varnish) from (a surface)
   （用溶剂）涂表面除漆
   the floorboards can be stripped, sanded, and polished

   strip off the existing paint

   去除原来的漆。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Next job is to strip the varnish from the neck, and sand it down to the wood.
   • In 1999, a man from Essex, southeast England, left four families on his street homeless while trying to strip paint in his house.
   • If we are to develop a more realistic sense of place we will need to strip the varnish from some cherished myths about our island world.
   • I suspect that paint is being stripped in Wanganui.
   • When the paint was stripped it revealed numerous scratches and old repairs.
   • All the paint had to be stripped and the corrosion rectified.
   • They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
   • The aim of the study was to find a cheaper and less hazardous way of removing lead paint than stripping the paint off the walls.
   • Thinking quickly, Stephenson stripped the paint from his beer can, punched a hole in the bottom, and fixed it in place on the model.
   • Use caution when stripping the paint from the pilot/step castings, as they are very fragile.

   Synonyms

   peel, remove, take off, flake, scrape, scratch, shave, abrade, rub, clear, clean

   pare, skin, flay

   technical excoriate, decorticate
6. 1.6 Remove the stems from (tobacco).
   脱去；剥光…的衣服
   Example sentencesExamples

   • When they feel crisp, strip them from the stems and store them whole in an airtight container, away from the light.
   • Well, tobacco is stripped from the plant as large leaves.
   • It got to where I'd be stripping tobacco suckers from the plants, and I'd be able to sense a lurking copperhead.
   • Lighter mildew doesn't hurt, because leaves are stripped from the stem.
7. 1.7 Milk (a cow) to the last drop.
   为（奶牛）收奶
   Example sentencesExamples

   • No sign of anyone but after a few minutes a bachelor farmer would shout from the byre that he was stripping the last cow.

2Leave bare of accessories or fittings.

盗贼搬光了房间里的行李。

1. 2.1 Remove the accessory fittings of or take apart (a machine, motor vehicle, etc.) to inspect or adjust it.
   除去（机器、汽车等的）附属装置；拆开，拆散，拆卸（以进行检修或校正）
   the tank was stripped down piece by piece

   坦克被一部分一部分地拆开。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • After taking a few hours to strip the car of everything they thought might be useful, they divided it amongst themselves.
   • The engines for USA must be built before the Canada engines are used, let alone stripped and inspected.
   • When Paul got to the shop, he stripped the car down to the bare chassis and inspected every nut and bolt.
   • You wouldn't have a clue, would you, until you pull it apart, and really stripped it down.
   • They'd stripped the prototype engine out and were constructing a more refined version.
   • Johnny developed a life long love for fixing things and could strip a tractor down and put it together again.
   • We completely strip your machine down to the last nut and bolt then rebuild ensuring every component works perfectly.
   • A market trader has told how he faces going out of business after overnight raiders stripped his van of £10,000 worth of goods.
   • Before starting to strip the engine we drained all the oil from the engine - noting a high metal content.
   • Those used in racing events are stripped apart and studied for tolerance, performance and ride quality.
   • Within minutes the squatters had stripped the car.
   • It was partially stripped and disassembled, basically thousands of parts in boxes and no directions!
   • At the 5,000 round mark we field stripped the rifle and inspected it.
   • The more dilapidated eastern end of the Turbine building was partly stripped and cannibalised for other parts of the building.
   • Directed to return to their units, the men responded by stripping the engines and airplanes of parts as souvenirs of the experience.
   • After that the pistol was detail stripped and inspected again.
   • Police who stripped the van found rope and black adjustable ties.
   • Without using tools at all you can strip the chassis down considerably.
   • But the last week has seen six attacks on cars in north Ryedale, with the cars being stripped of their valuable badges each time.
   • To remove the smell entirely, strip the insides of the car and steam clean everything.

   Synonyms

   dismantle, disassemble, take to pieces, take to bits, take apart, break up, demolish

3strip someone ofDeprive someone of (rank, power, or property)

该中尉被剥夺了军衔。

4Sell off (the assets of a company) for profit.

1. 4.1Finance Divest (a bond) of its interest coupons so that it and they may be sold separately.
   〔财政〕分离（债券的）息票使二者分开出售
   Example sentencesExamples

   • You can also buy the coupons instead of the stripped bond itself.
   • This unique series of funds buy Treasury bonds stripped of their interest coupons.
   • In any event, traditional dividend stripping fell out of favor as a tax strategy.
   • There is also a question of whether there is a scheme of dividend stripping.
   • Fimmda will publish the market rates for stripped zero coupon bonds on a monthly basis for valuation and tax purposes.

5Tear the thread or teeth from (a screw, gearwheel, etc.).

1. 5.1no object (of a screw, gearwheel, etc.) lose its thread or teeth.
   （螺丝）螺纹损坏；（齿轮）齿折断
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Ensure the fuze well is clean and the threads are not stripped.
   • It had an ‘H’ harness like belt hanging on a hook, stripped of gear.
   • It was at that point that the screw thread stripped and the pressure blew the whistle up in the air.
   • The Phillips screw had stripped, and Nettie knew she should have gone with a Robertson.
   • Because of that, your bolts are much longer, and the bolt snapped rather than the aluminum thread stripping out.
   • We were ready to remove the old squelch module when we quickly noticed that the top of the screw head was stripped.
   • One of the pins has come loose and the threads appear stripped, can I repair it?
   • Don't use the electric screwdriver to torque down the screws - it can strip out the heads.
   • Hold the skate over the Allen wrench and place the stripped bolt directly on top of the Allen wrench, as centred on the hole as possible.
   • The work was routine, but two stripped screws made the job more complicated and prevented the panel's removal.

6no object (of a bullet) be fired from a rifled gun without spin owing to a loss of surface.

1An act of undressing, especially in a striptease.

她醉得在钢琴上表演脱衣舞。

1. 1.1as modifier Used for or involving the performance of stripteases.
   脱衣舞
   a campaigner against strip joints

   反对脱衣舞厅的活动家。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • She not only bares herself for your scrutiny on her blog, she bares all at a couple of strip joints.
   • What kind of person goes into a strip joint at midday on the weekend?
   • Jason marched right up and into the strip joint, determined to get some directions.
   • By dives, you mean bars, strip joints, greasy spoon places?
   • Bourbon Street's world famous for its bars and strip joints.
   • A couple of weeks ago the Don Hotel, the last of the city's legendary strip joints, closed its doors.
   • Caesars is reputed to be the hottest strip joint in Kingston.
   • I was working in this strip joint in Louisville about two years ago.
   • He gets a tip from Mike that the Whale went to a strip joint.
   • So are strikes carried out by illegal-immigrant operatives with a fondness for strip joints living in the United States.
   • My stripping ‘career’ didn't begin in a sleazy strip joint, conveniently located on the side of some local highway.
   • One spot that should not be missed downtown is Fremont Street, where a large number of casinos and strip bars are located.
   • Are you sure that the previous Egyptian mission surveillance photos weren't mixed with those from a 21st century strip joint?
   • The Europa was a strip joint, drug den and haven for hookers, particularly under-age girls.
   • Clubs and strip joints were open for business, and dark pubs were filled to the brim with chilled customers.
   • First, most of the sailors can't afford Manhattan's strip joints.
   • The story, as most people must know, concerns the efforts of six men to raise money for their wives and families by performing a strip act.
   • Disability does nothing to dampen his interest in smoking, drinking, skiving school and visiting strip joints.
   • It became a club hit in the US, and is apparently still a staple in strip joints.
   • Bars and strip joints were the only buildings on the side of the long street.

2British The identifying outfit worn by the members of a sports team while playing.

1A long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, plastic, or some other material.

一长条亚麻布。

1. 1.1 A long, narrow area of land.
   带状地带
   the offensive gained a strip of territory a mile wide

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In this sense, peasants were simply tenants who worked a strip of land or maybe several strips.
   • This had been a lake with a strip of land connecting the Welsh and Wexford coasts in the south.
   • A riparian zone is a strip of land extending on average 10-30m from a designated river.
   • The island was narrow, a strip of land about twenty miles long, running in a north-south direction.
   • Compared to a strip of land in Hungary, it's a cinch.
   • Card can also be used for borders, with separate strips to define planting areas.
   • The other nine soldiers who had had nothing else to do had spent all day clearing out a strip of land for a runway.
   • Grass buffers are narrow strips of land between the crop and stream.
   • I began to slowly swim around, trying to find a strip of land on the horizon, but all that was visible was pure ocean blue.
   • In this case, the area was a strip of beach about a hundred yards long.
   • On Tuesday just six caravans were occupying a strip of land destined to house a £500,000 youth club and multi-use hall.
   • Cabinet Magazine would like you to buy a strip of land in New Mexico.
   • The most productive row crop fields occupy the narrow strip of flat land by the river.
   • In the villages most people own a strip of land and grow their own food.
   • Between each plot, there's a strip of no-man's land disguised as a hedge or a ditch.
   • The bitumen-surfaced path has been created by buying a strip of land along the edge of the field next to the road.
   • We've taken 30 acres out of production already for double-wide waterways and filter strips.
   • This erosion hazard area is the strip of land that should disappear within the next 30 years, given the historical erosion rate.
   • The Lido in Venice is a strip of land dividing the lagoon from the Adriatic, just a short vaporetto ride from St Mark's.
   • An area of 2,000 square metres is equivalent to a strip of land just 100 metres long and 20 metres wide.
2. 1.2North American A main road in or leading out of a town that is lined with shops, restaurants, and other facilities.
   〈主北美〉（两旁有商店、餐馆和其他设施的）大街，出城公路
   we went to a discount centre in a strip near where we work

   Example sentencesExamples

   • This is really the main strip in Biloxi, at least where the hotels and the casinos are.
   • Nelson agreed and they said goodbye as the Ryan women walked out into the main strip of town.
   • I had a big smile on my face and was practically skipping back towards the main strip.
   • On weekend nights dancing, laughing and music can be heard spilling from the bars, clubs and restaurants that line the strip.
   • Heaving my own sigh of defeat, I led her out of the strip of town.
   • There is an emergency command center in a hotel here right on the strip.
   • His dream is to make all the foreshores a continuous strip of over priced cafes topped with similarly overpriced apartments.
   • As soon as we finished setting up our tent, we hightailed it to the main strip.
   • Galleries line Ocean Avenue, the town's main strip, but area museums are also a good bet.
   • But not all of Vegas' attractions are nestled on the main strip.
   • We stopped and ate in a historically-rich diner joint in the main strip.
   • At Studio Bliss, a recently opened spa on the St-Laurent strip, you can double your pleasure with a four-hand massage or soak up a rain massage.
   • Sarah's favorite eatery was located not too far from Centreville's main strip - Acadia Road.
   • So next week The News will be coming from the Flamingo Casino on the strip in down town Las Vegas.
   • And since one of the slopes that slipped faced Miami's main business strip, everyone in town knew that the cows had saved the day.
   • As they began to walk down the main strip Janine spoke up.
   • Wesley high school stood in the middle of town just off the main strip of Wesley road.
   • The main pastime in town was cruising the strip, so we headed over there in the afternoon to see what we could find.
   • The nightclub was one of the newest on the main strip of Sunset City and bore the city's name.
   • Instead of shooting each other, they ran around lining up cars on the main strip.
3. 1.3mass noun Steel or other metal in the form of narrow flat bars.
   带钢；条状金属
   the company had purchased 67,423 kg of steel strip

   Example sentencesExamples

   • You press a remote control button on your pole handle and - voila - a thin metal strip extends from the sides of your skis.
   • I grabbed onto the long strip of metal slipped through the handles of the door.
   • The strip of metal was light enough on his shoulder and he could, for a while longer, ignore the steady drip of water down his neck.
   • The driver nodded once and pressed a narrow strip of metal to the floor.
   • If she had felt the thick strip of metal down my side, she certainly would have been curious.
   • The tail has a raised appearance with large light clusters and that single metal strip gives it a very distinctive look.
   • The hold I had on my brother's hand got even tighter as the doctor began to gradually urge the thin strip of metal out of my body.
   • She had it re-framed in a wide black frame with a narrow gilded strip at the sight edge.
   • Attached to the box was a long, metal strip that extended about twenty feet.
   • He hooked the leather-lined, broad strip of bronze around his corded-muscle mid-section.
   • ‘Not bad for your first time, Davis,’ Johnson says as I cross the metal strip that marks the end of the course.
   • The island's butcher-block top is divided into two sections by an undulating strip of stainless steel.
   • Her hand trembled with the effort of keeping the metal sensor strip in place.
   • It is just a long metal strip with a little keypad and monitor on it that will fuse itself to your glove.
   • Wrought zinc and zinc alloys may be obtained as rolled strip, sheet and foil; extruded rod and shapes; and drawn rod and wire.
   • Sgt Smith said he later discovered the weapon was not a sword, but a metal carpet strip or carpet gripper.
   • A fully electronic unit, it consists of a wide, flat strip that extends into the tank, topped by a cap housing the electronics.
   • The caster roll is used in the manufacture of metal plate, strip, sheet, or foil.
   • Most noticeable were the metallic spheres, the red strip of indented metal in the center shining ominously when the light hit.
   • This contains a thin, flat strip made of a layer of iron and a layer of brass soldered together, and bent into a coil.

2A comic strip.

3British A programme broadcast regularly at the same time.

他主持一个每周两小时的咨询节目。