vt.包；折疊；交叉；擁抱
vi.翻倍；屈服；倒閉
n.折層；折痕
Dark clouds folded the hills. 烏云籠罩著群山。
I folded the handkerchief and put it in my pocket. 我折好手絹，放進口袋里。
The border guard folded his arms across his chest and glared the front. 邊防戰(zhàn)士雙手交叉于胸前緊緊瞪著前方。
用作不及物動詞 (vi.)if a business folds, it closes because it is not able to make enough money. 如果有公司倒閉關門,那是因為它沒辦法賺取足夠的錢。
fold的基本意思是“折疊”,可指對折,也可指交疊,引申可表示“包圍,包起,籠罩”。
fold用作及物動詞時,接名詞或代詞作賓語,可用于被動結構; 也可接副詞away, up或介詞in, around, into 等短語作賓語補足語, fold也可用作不及物動詞,這時主動形式常含有被動意義。
fold偶爾可用作系動詞接形容詞作表語。
fold的過去分詞folded常用作形容詞,在句中作定語。
fold還可用作名詞表示“羊欄,畜欄”“褶”。例如:It is not too late to mend the fold even after some of the sheep have been lost.亡羊補牢,猶未為晚。The sheep are safe in the sheepfold.羊在羊欄里很安全。The eyelid is a movable fold of skin that smoothes out when covered over the eye.眼瞼是可動的皮褶,當它垂下蓋住眼睛時,褶就平了。Each fold in the skirt should be exactly the same width.裙子上的每條褶應該都一樣寬。
v.展開；開放；顯露
n.鷹架；絞刑臺；腳手架
