这个词和 extend 长得很像， extend 指长度上面的延伸， expand 含有膨胀的意思，多指面积、体积的增长。
例句： After such treatment the fabric is often found to expand on washing .
毛织物有时发现在洗涤之后会出现伸长现象。

a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it.

在织物的下方两边折叠而成的一双直褶。

ADJ. 有花形图案的;绘有花的. A floral fabric or design has flowers on it.

The whole social fabric was threatened with disintegration.

整个社会结构有瓦解的危险。

※I believe that fame and celebrity, influence and power, success and failure, reality and illusion are all somehow neatly woven into a seamless fabric we laughingly call reality.——Howards Melvin, American essayist我相信声誉和名声、影响和权力、成功和失败、现实和幻想都好像是精心纺织在一匹光洁无缝的织品之中，即我们笑称之为现实的东西。美国散文家  麦尔文.H.

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