gown

将“gown”与“ gown up ”的情景相结合，想象自己穿着一件优雅的礼服“gown”去参加一个正式的场合，这个视觉图像可以帮助你记住这个单词的含义，即“礼服、长袍”。

gown 长袍，罩衣

来自拉丁语gunna, 皮衣，衣服。

gown (n.)

long, loose outer garment, c. 1300, from Old French goune "robe, coat; (nun's) habit, gown," related to Late Latin gunna "leather garment, skin, hide," of unknown origin. Used by St. Boniface (8c.) for a fur garment permitted for old or infirm monks. Klein writes that it is probably "a word adopted from a language of the Apennine or the Balkan Peninsula." OED points to Byzantine Greek gouna, a word for a coarse garment sometimes made of skins, but also notes "some scholars regard it as of Celtic origin."

In 18c., gown was the common word for what now usually is styled a dress. It was maintained more in the U.S. than in Britain, but was somewhat revived 20c. in fashion senses and in combinations (such as bridal gown, nightgown). Meaning "flowing robe worn on official occasions as a badge of office or authority" is from late 14c. As collective singular for "residents of a university" (1650s) it typically is used in rhyming opposition to town.

1. She crept from the bed and fumbled for her dressing gown.

她从床上蹑手蹑脚地爬起来，摸索着自己的晨衣。

2. I was shoehorning myself into my skin-tight ball gown.

我正拼命把自己塞进我的紧身晚礼服里。

3. Wood was now comfortably enfolded in a woolly dressing-gown.

伍德正舒服地穿着件羊毛晨衣。

4. Her gown was thin, and she shivered, partly from cold.

她的礼服很薄，浑身在发抖，一半是冻的。

5. She finally found the perfect gown, a beautiful creation trimmed with lace.

她终于找到了理想的礼服——一袭饰有蕾丝的美丽长裙。

【uniform, clothing, clothes, dress, garment, suit, costume, gown, robe, coat】
这组词都有“衣服、服装”的意思，其区别是：
uniform: 指某团体或组织统一做的制服，如军服、校服等。
clothing: 常用词，集合名词，是衣服的总称。
clothes: 普通用词，多指包括上衣、内衣或裤子等具体的一件件衣服。
dress: 多指正式场合或为某些特定用途而穿的服装，也指童装或女性穿的连衣裙。
garment: 语气庄重，正式用词，复数形式可与clothes换用，指身上全部穿着。单数形式指单件衣服，尤指长袍、外套等外面的衣服。
suit: 指一套服装，一般有几件配成一套的套装。
costume: 指流行某一地区或某一时代的服装，也指演员的戏装。
gown: 指女人穿的长服，尤指教士、法官、教授等的礼服或妇女的睡衣等，也指长袍。
robe: 指长袍，也指浴衣、晨衣。
coat: 指上衣、外衣、大衣、外套及女式上装。