trademark registered 1924 by Johnson & Johnson for a stick-on gauze pad or strip. See band (n.1) + aid (n.). The British equivalent was Elastoplast. Figurative sense of "temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, pallative" (often lower case, sometimes bandaid) is first recorded 1968; as an adjective, from 1970.
雙語例句
1. My underskirt had ridden up into a thick band around my hips.
我的襯裙已經(jīng)躥到臀部，厚厚地卷成一圈。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I learned a lot from him about how to run a band.
我從他那里學(xué)到了許多關(guān)于經(jīng)營樂隊方面的東西.
來自柯林斯例句
3. Kurt had started out playing bass in a rock band.
庫爾特起初在一個搖滾樂隊彈低音吉他。
來自柯林斯例句
4. They still get treated differently from almost every other contemporary British band.
他們所得到的待遇仍然與當(dāng)代幾乎所有其他英國樂隊都不同。
來自柯林斯例句
5. He spent his adolescent years playing guitar in the church band.