brand

1. N-COUNT A brand of a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer. 品牌

Winston is a brand of cigarette. 雲斯頓是一種香菸品牌。

I bought one of the leading brands. 我買了知名品牌中的一種。

2. N-COUNT A brand of something such as a way of thinking or behaving is a particular kind of it. (思維或行爲方式等的) 獨特類型

Joel Hatch brings his own unique brand of humour to the role. 喬爾·哈奇把他自己獨具一格的幽默帶進了這個角色。

3. V-T If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing. 歸爲 (不好的事物)

I was instantly branded as a rebel. 我立刻被歸爲造反者。

The company has been branded racist by some of its own staff. 這家公司被它自己的一些職員歸爲種族主義者。

4. V-T When you brand an animal, you put a permanent mark on its skin in order to show who it belongs to, usually by burning a mark onto its skin. 給…打上烙印

The owner couldn't be bothered to brand the cattle. 主人嬾得給這牛打上烙印。

5. N-COUNT Brand is also a noun. 烙印

A brand was a mark of ownership burned into the hide of an animal with a hot iron. 烙印是用烙鉄燒在牲畜皮上的所有權標記。