英语释义
1. a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety sense 2) accompanies one or more young unmarried women in public or in mixed company
2. an older person who accompanies young people at a social gathering to ensure proper behavior broadly one delegated to ensure proper behavior
I was a chaperone on one of my son's class trips.
3. any of a class of proteins (such as heat-shock proteins) that facilitate the proper folding of proteins by binding to and stabilizing unfolded or partially folded proteins — called also molecular chaperone
4. escort
5. to act as chaperone to or for
chaperone a dance chaperoning teenagers
6. to act as a chaperone
Two parents chaperoned at the school dance.
7. someone (such as a teacher or parent) who goes with children on a trip or to a school dance to make sure that the children behave properly
8. a person in the past who went with a young unmarried woman to social events in order to make sure that the woman behaved properly
9. to be a chaperone to or for (someone or something)
10. a person who goes with and is responsible for a group of young people
11. to go with and supervise a group of young people act as a chaperone
Several parents chaperoned the school dance.
12. any of a class of proteins (such as heat shock proteins and chaperonins) that facilitate the proper folding of proteins by binding to and stabilizing unfolded or partially folded proteins
As the proteins are produced, molecules called chaperones fold them into the three-dimensional form they are supposed to take.
— Andres M. Lozano et al., Scientific American,, July 2005 — called also molecular chaperone