Axe
[æks]
解释:
(n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
(-) Alt. of Axeman
录入:威廉姆斯
解释:
n. a well-known tool or instrument for hewing or chopping usually of iron with a steel edge:—pl. Ax′es.
布丽奇特编辑
娱乐性解释：
Seeing an axe in a dream, foretells that what enjoyment you may have will depend on your struggles and energy. To see others using an axe, foretells, your friends will be energetic and lively, making existence a pleasure when near them. For a young woman to see one, portends her lover will be worthy, but not possessed with much wealth. A broken or rusty axe, indicates illness and loss of money and property.
校对:马奇
例句:
- Saint Mary Axe! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer implements, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But come, the back door is unlocked; there's an axe there, I put it there,--his room door is open; I'll show you the way. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- If it were the deuce's own scribble, and yo' axed me to read in it for yo'r sake, and th' oud gentleman's, I'd do it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Godfrey read it, and fell back in a chair as if he had been pole-axed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- I feel the rack pass over my body like the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The crew had been able to muster but six firearms, so most of them were armed with boat hooks, axes, hatchets and crowbars. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- These were probably used as hand-axes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers--axes, picks, and spades. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I'd a deal sooner be flogged mysel'; but yo're not a common wench, axing yo'r pardon, nor yet have yo' common ways about yo'. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
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