1A set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt.

1. 1.1 A set of clothes to be worn on a particular occasion or for a particular activity.
   （在特殊场合或为特殊活动穿的）一套衣服
   a jogging suit

   慢跑运动服。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Firefighters again donned protective suits and collected the powder for forensic examination.
   • He attempted to enter the ship by the funnel but nearly went up in a puff of smoke due to the non fire retardant Santa suit.
   • All of it looked familiar - except the shiny, glow-in-the-dark running suits designed by Emilio Sosa.
   • Don't use a powerlifting suit or shirt; special clothing will make you depend more on momentum than on muscle.
   • If you are still clinging to polyester ski pants and an old knit, long sleeved, bike jersey as your race suit, consider Lycra.
   • He was the man in the fire-red jogging suit and the wild processed hair inspired by James Brown.
   • The wearing of the jogging suit by the non-jogging public, I contend, is the heralding of the downfall of American society.
   • He had a spotty complexion and wore a striped T-shirt and blue Reebok track suit.
   • Being cold is no fun, so pack the right diving suit and be damned, but remember that your head is the area of greatest heat loss.
   • He explained that the chemical suits would also be employed in the event of a chemical spill or other incident involving hazardous materials.
   • Today, he clings to memories and a photograph of his dad donning his green flight suit.
   • They watched these two men, and as soon as the bird flew from the nest they began to crawl forward in their gilly suits.
   • Sailors dash around in fearnought firefighting suits.
   • But staff refused to let him back even though he was dressed smartly in his club suit after helping his team beat Mansfield 4-1 on penalties.
   • A two-man recompression chamber was provided, as was a protective suit which would be worn by a sailor called to inspect and destroy unexploded ordnance.
   • Here two of the more junior sailors donned their dive suits and swam 500m out to the team's rigid inflatable boat, which was moored off the beach each night.
   • Diving history is illustrated through several odd contraptions, from early submersion suits like the one pictured to modern, state-of-the art technology.
   • Shane gets in to the swing of things by donning a convincing cowboy suit during his performance.
   • Dangerous contaminants at the crash site required the team members to wear full rubber protective suits for their safety.
   • Even Russian men, whose clothing choice was once limited to polyester business suits or polyester jogging suits, have become fussy dressers.

   Synonyms

   outfit, clothes, costume, ensemble, clothing, dress, attire, garments, garb, turnout, rig, uniform, livery, array, regalia, robes, finery
2. 1.2 A complete set of pieces of armor for covering the whole body.
   一副盔甲
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   • The Grand Vestibule is hung with suits of armour and displays of old weaponry.
   • At the Seattle Art Museum he is presenting six sculptures, including a suit of armor made from hundreds of dog tags.
   • It's a constant battle with the management - you need a suit of armour, not overalls, to come to work.
   • She was raised in a castle, where Augustus John once famously found her father reading The Times in a suit of armour.
   • Many brave knights died while trying to kill the huge beast, the legend goes - until one day, a local hero named Peter took on the worm while wearing a suit of armour covered with razor blades.
   • Clad in a suit of white armor and flying her own standard she liberated France from the English at the battle of Orleans.
   • One of the first things Rosemary does before opening her farm shop in the village of Camembert is don a suit of armour - one forged in her imagination.
   • It's made from very elaborate moulds out of very thin latex, and once everything is on it's kind of like a suit of armour.
   • He emerged a moment later carrying the unassembled pieces of a suit of armor a golden bronze in color.
   • Just what Anakin's decision is, why he makes it and how it leads him to don a suit of black armour have been the stuff of Star Wars legend.
   • One of the waza chefs turns his pots and pans into a suit of armour and marches on the newly constructed religious site, with humour his only weapon.
   • ‘They saw us,’ he panted as he quickly toppled a suit of armor and wedged it up against the bottom of the door.
   • Research in the Metropolitan Museum of Art turned up a screw of the 1480s attaching parts of a suit of armor.
   • Businesses are expected to adorn their premises with the flag of St George, while the figure of England's patron saint, clad in a suit of armour, will ride on horseback through the town.
   • She dragged him down the hall and they hid behind a suit of armor.
   • For some reason this sight brings to mind a snooker ball balanced on a suit of armour.
   • This protects the body of the animal like a suit of armour.
   • ‘I went to him to buy a suit of armour and ended up persuading him to take part as well,’ said John.
   • If you, like Colthirst, find yourself donning a suit of armor at work, then your workplace has become a battlefield.
   • The shell of a mollusc isn't a suit of armour like that worn by crustaceans such as the crab.
   • It was like one of those Monty Python sketches where a man in a suit of armour walks in and slaps everyone with a rubber chicken.
3. 1.3usually suitsinformal An executive in a business or organization, typically one regarded as exercising influence in an impersonal way.
   〈非正式〉（企业或机构中的）高级管理人员
   maybe now the suits in Washington will listen

   也许现在华盛顿的那些高级行政长官们会听一听了。

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   • And what about the endless fulminating about how those arch-conservative suits in the music business are shutting down anti-war thought?
   • The issue wouldn't have entered the public domain were it not for the suits within these organisations discussing these proposals over a coffee when on SPL business.
   • So we cobble something together, the suits smile sweetly, the auditors tick their boxes, and everyone is happy, including the bad guys.
   • It's not all about suits, lawyers and accountants - it's about rock 'n' roll and creativity.
   • And voters identify with actors and musicians much more than with the suits who run the record and movie industries.
   • I saw some London executive, up in Edinburgh for a meeting with the suits at Scottish Widows or wherever.
   • The ever-present green-and white clad gaggle of fans surround the main entrance to Celtic Park, all of them gazing with intent at the procession of suits and tracksuits inside.
   • Now, armed with the SEC's decision that the accounting dodge had a material impact for investors, those suits may require a bigger payout to go away.
   • The Union's new boss has overhauled the suits in Murrayfield such that there are new heads of department occupying just about every office going, from marketing to media via finance.
   • When music is free (in both senses) record companies, suits, agents, will be redundant.
   • Yet striking the right balance between the artists and the suits remains remarkably hard.
   • Now we have a procession of suits and ‘yes’ men.
   • Despite Chimpzilla's recent string of victories over Intel, the steady stream of senior suits jumping ship must give cause for concern.
   • The train is the commuter service from Waterloo, and as such, packed with suits escaping their city jobs for something semi-detached in Hampshire.
   • I flew through the hallway quickly, getting rid of the suits in the process.
   • Kahane wants nothing to do with the studio suit who has spurned him for so long, and storms out.
   • You, on the other hand, are a nobody, a bureaucrat, a stuffed suit.

   Synonyms

   businessman, businesswoman, business person, executive, bureaucrat, administrator, manager, director

2Any of the sets distinguished by their pictorial symbols into which a deck of playing cards is divided, in conventional decks comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs.

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4The process of trying to win a woman's affection with a view to marriage.

在玛丽安的眼中，他不能匹敌约翰的魅力，所以他的求婚毫无结果。

1. 4.1literary A petition or entreaty made to a person in authority.
   〈诗/文〉（向当权者提出的）请愿；请求
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   • The first concerns his suit to the Queen for the return of Waltham Forest, the second his suit to the Queen for a licence to bring certain commodities into the realm, and the third a petition brought by one Thomas Gurley against Oxford's wife.
   • The ambassador for Poland is returning from Rome having made suit to the Pope for 20,000 crowns.

   Synonyms

   entreaty, supplication, plea, prayer, appeal, request, application, invocation

5A complete set of sails required for a ship or for a set of spars.

1with object Be convenient for or acceptable to.

这套房子有两间卧室，如果合你的意，你可以住一间。

只要对他有利他就撒谎。

1. 1.1suit oneselfoften in imperative Act entirely according to one's own wishes (often used to express the speaker's annoyance)
   完全随自己的意愿行事（常用于表达说话者的不满）
   “I'm not going to help you.” “Suit yourself.”

   “我不会帮你的。”“随你的便吧。”

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   • And then of course the series gets cancelled or new designers decide they don't like the old story and change everything to suit themselves, resulting in an incomprehensible mess.
   • The tribunal heard that up to 60 per cent of staff at North College had been against the merger, and it was claimed many had acted unprofessionally by being uncooperative and even altering timetables to suit themselves.
   • Departments suited themselves about typefaces and headings.
   • They are private clubs and can to a large extent suit themselves.
   • I don't think so, for the Government doesn't back date anything unless it suits themselves.
   • The module based system of learning allows learners to take courses at times to suit themselves and take time out if they need to.
   • Smaller drivers can also adjust their seats to 14 different positions to suit themselves.
   • Everybody else can suit themselves but this is my democratic choice.
   • Let those who want to study Shakespeare suit themselves.
   • But history will be kind to him mainly because the victors write the history and they write it to suit themselves.
   • And just those who argued over Luther, those who want to use Columba for their own arguments pick and choose the bits of the truth which most suit themselves.
   • Carve the bird to suit yourself; I like to do it in the roasting tin.
   • In a word, they were doing what every elite in unaccountable institutions do, doing what suited themselves.
   • You see this desperation in the way they respond to our every little action and in the way they twist our words to suit themselves.
   • Obey the law or take the rap - you can't pick and choose to suit yourself.
   • Yet I suppose Inuit have always modified Christianity to suit themselves, a traditional cosmology with the formal overlay of religion.
   • Again despite all the huffing and puffing, despite Cork's famous facility for interpreting the rule-book to suit themselves, that was wrong too.
   • It appears in your letter, you are manipulating God's word to suit yourself.
   • You also have a knack for inventing new words to suit yourself.
   • We don't have big healthy meals but instead the trend is for lots of baby dishes, which is billed as ‘tasting’ or ‘grazing’ menus, which allow customers to mix, pick, share and generally suit themselves.
2. 1.2suit something toarchaic Adapt or make appropriate for (something)
   〈古〉使适合（某事物）
   they took care to suit their answers to the questions put to them

   他们小心地回答，以便使答案和对他们提出的问题相符合。

2Go well with or enhance the features, figure, or character of (someone)

那件连衣裙不适合她穿。

3North American no object Put on clothes, especially for a particular activity.

我穿上游泳衣，下了水。