brands

英 [brændz]

美 [brændz]

n.  品牌; 类型; 烙印(尤指农场牲畜身上表示所属的印记)
v.  (尤指不公正地)丑化(某人)，败坏(某人)名声; 给(牲畜)打烙印
brand的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 牌子；品牌
  Abrandof a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer.
  1. Winston is a brand of cigarette...
     “温斯顿”是一个香烟品牌。
  2. I bought one of the leading brands.
     我买了几个畅销品牌中的一种。
  3. ...a supermarket's own brand.
     一家超级市场的自有品牌
• N-COUNT （思维或行为等的）一种，一类
  Abrand ofsomething such as a way of thinking or behaving is a particular kind of it.
  1. The British brand of socialism was more interested in reform than revolution.
     英国式的社会主义更加注重改革，而不是革命。
• VERB 加污名于；谴责
  If someoneis brandedas something bad, people think they are that thing.
  1. I was instantly branded as a rebel...
     转眼间我被诬蔑为叛徒。
  2. The company has been branded racist by some of its own staff...
     一些内部员工谴责这家公司具有种族主义倾向。
  3. The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.
     美国当局最近认定他为战犯。
• VERB 在（动物）身上打烙印
  When youbrandan 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.
  1. The owner couldn't be bothered to brand the cattle.
     主人懒得给牛打烙印。
  2. Brandis also a noun.
     
  3. A brand was a mark of ownership burned into the hide of an animal with a hot iron.
     烙印是一种用烙铁烫印在牲畜毛皮上以标志其归属的印记。
• （打在动物身上的）烙印
  Abrandis a permanent mark on the skin of an animal, which shows who it belongs to.

Thebrandof a product such as jeans, tea, or soap is its name, which can also be the name of the company that makes or sells it. Themakeof a car or electrical appliance such as a radio or washing machine is the name of the company that produces it. If you talk about whattypeof product or service you want, you are talking about its quality and what features it should have. You can also talk abouttypesof people or of abstract things. ...which type of pram to choose. ...a new type of bank account. ...looking for a certain type of actor. Amodelof car or of some other devices is a name that is given to a particulartype, for example, Ford Escort or Nissan Micra. Note thattypecan also be used informally to mean eithermakeormodel. For example, if someone asks whattypeof car you have got, you could reply 'an estate', 'a Ford', or perhaps 'an Escort'.
brand可以用来表示牛仔裤、茶或肥皂之类产品的品牌，也可以表示制造或销售这些产品的企业的名称。make用来表示生产汽车或收音机、洗衣机之类电器的制造商的名称。type指具有某种质量或特色的某类产品或服务，也可以指不同类型的人或抽象事物：which type of pram to choose（选择哪种型号的婴儿车），a new type of bank account（一种新型银行账户），looking for a certain type of actor（寻找某一类型的演员）。model表示汽车等装置设备的type（特定型号），例如Ford Escort（福特护卫者）或Nissan Micra（尼桑米克拉）。注意，也可用type表示make或model，不过这是非正式的表述方式。例如，某人如果问what type of car you have got（你买的是什么车）, 可以回答an estate（旅行车）, a Ford（福特）或an Escort（护卫者）。

双语例句

• Having established the competitiveness of their brands versus foreign rivals, Chinese companies have several advantages.
  确立了自身品牌相对于外国竞争对手的竞争力之后，中国公司具有若干优势。
• The chief protagonists in the row are Visa and Mastercard, the world's leading credit card brands.
  这场纠纷的主角是世界两大信用卡品牌——维萨和万事达。
• There's also brand heterogeneity, which requires support for different brands of application servers and MOMs.
  此外还有品牌异构性，这需要支持不同品牌的应用服务器和MOM。
• I bought one of the leading brands.
  我买了几个畅销品牌中的一种。
• This range is substantially cheaper than any of the other own brands available.
  这一系列的产品比所有其他超市的自有品牌都要便宜得多。
• Retailers were hit with a blizzard of new products and brands in all shapes, sizes and colours.
  各种形色不一、大小各异的新产品和新品牌铺天盖地，让零售商们疲于应付。
• What implications will the transaction have for Joyou's and GROHE's production and brands?
  这项交易对中宇和高仪的产品与品牌有什么影响？
• From my own studio I was designing brands and Corporate Identity programs for companies and organizations in Europe.
  我自己的工作室为众多位于欧洲的公司和组织机构设计了商标和企业形象识别系统。
• Toothpaste brands affected include Crest and Colgate.
  受影响的牙膏品牌包括佳洁士和高露洁。
• From Nike to Buick to Siemens, Chinese consumers actively prefer Western brands over their domestic competitors.
  从耐克、别克到西门子，中国消费者对西方品牌的喜爱远远胜过国内的竞争品牌。