material made with rubber, that can stretch and then return to its original size 橡皮圈(或带);松紧带 Extra ExamplesThe elastic in these socks has gone. 短袜上的松紧带失去了弹性。 The skirt is held up by a length of elastic around the waist. 裙子用一段松紧带缚在腰上。 an old skirt with loose elastic 松紧带失去弹性的旧裙子
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- loose
- tight
- hair
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- length
- piece
- break
- go
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Word Originmid 17th cent. (originally describing a gas in the sense ‘expanding spontaneously to fill the available space’): from modern Latin elasticus, from Greek elastikos ‘propulsive’, from elaunein ‘to drive’.