brand /brænd/ CET4 TEM4 ( branding, branded, brands )

• 1. 

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

  例：

  Winston is a brand of cigarette.

  云斯顿是一种香烟品牌。

  例：

  I bought one of the leading brands.

  我买了知名品牌中的一种。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A brand of something such as a way of thinking or behaving is a particular kind of it. (思维或行为方式等的) 独特类型

  例：

  Joel Hatch brings his own unique brand of humour to the role.

  乔尔·哈奇把他自己独具一格的幽默带进了这个角色。

• 3. 

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

  例：

  I was instantly branded as a rebel.

  我立刻被归为造反者。

  例：

  The company has been branded racist by some of its own staff.

  这家公司被它自己的一些职员归为种族主义者。

• 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. 给…打上烙印

  例：

  The owner couldn't be bothered to brand the cattle.

  主人懒得给这牛打上烙印。

• 5. 

  N-COUNT Brand is also a noun. 烙印

  例：

  A brand was a mark of ownership burned into the hide of an animal with a hot iron.

  烙印是用烙铁烧在牲畜皮上的所有权标记。