drawer S3 / drɔ $ drɒr / 名词 [可数名词]

1 part of a piece of furniture, such as a desk, that you pull out and push in and use to keep things in :

She took a file from her desk drawer .

The scissors are in the kitchen drawer (= drawer in a piece of kitchen furniture ) .

top/bottom/right-hand/left-hand drawer

He opened the top drawer of his desk, and took out a brown envelope.

sock/cutlery drawer (= one for keeping socks, or knives, forks etc in ) → bottom drawer , chest of drawers , top-drawer

2 drawers [复数形式] old-fashioned underwear that women and girls wear between their waist and the tops of their legs 同义词 knickers

COLLOCATIONS

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + drawer

the top/bottom/middle drawer He opened the bottom drawer and got out a T-shirt.

a desk/table/dresser etc drawer The passports are in my desk drawer.

a kitchen drawer (= in a piece of kitchen furniture ) There’s some string in that kitchen drawer.

a sock/underwear/cutlery etc drawer (= containing socks, underwear etc ) He hid the gun in his sock drawer.

the right-hand/left-hand drawer Have you looked in the left-hand drawer?

动词

open a drawer Jonathan opened the drawer and took out a fork.

pull open/pull out a drawer (= open it ) He pulled open drawers until he found the papers.

close/shut a drawer She shut the drawer and locked it with a small key.

go through/look through/search through drawers (= try to find something by looking in drawers ) I’ve been through all my drawers and I can’t find it.

rummage/rifle through drawers (= search in them by moving things around in an untidy way ) Someone had been in my bedroom and rummaged through my drawers.