/strɪŋ ||; strɪŋ/noun1 [C,U] a piece of long, strong material like very thin rope, that you use for tying things 细绳;线;带: a ball/piece/length of string 一团╱一根╱一段细绳The key is hanging on a string. 钥匙挂在带子上。 ☞picture at cable 见cable插图
2 [C] one of the pieces of thin wire, etc that produce the sound on some musical instruments (乐器的)弦: A guitar has six strings. 吉他有六根弦。 ☞picture at music 见music插图
3 [C] one of the tightly stretched pieces of NYLON, etc in a RACKET (= the thing that you use to hit the ball in tennis and other sports) (网球等球拍的)弦
4 the strings [pl] the instruments in an orchestra that have strings 弦乐器
5 [C] a string of sth a line of things that are joined together on the same piece of thread 一串: a string of beads 一串珠子
6 [C] a string of sth a series of people, things or events that follow one after another 一系列;一连串;一行;一列: a string of visitors 一连串访客
7 [C] (computing计算机技术) a series of letters, numbers, words, etc. 字符串;数字符串;词串
(with) no strings attached;without strings with no special conditions 没有附带条件
pull strings→
PULL¹