Checker
['tʃekə] or ['tʃɛkɚ]
解释:
(noun.) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers.
(noun.) one who checks the correctness of something.
(noun.) an attendant who checks coats or baggage.
(verb.) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns.
校对:瓦珥--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) One who checks.
(n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
(n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
(v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
(v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check.
(v. t.) Checkerwork.
编辑:米考伯
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Variegate, diversify.
手打:利
解释:
See Chequer.
校对:伊薇特
娱乐性解释：
To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties of a serious character, and strange people will come into your life, working you harm. To dream that you win the game, you will succeed in some doubtful enterprise.
整理:华莱士
例句:
- She often says, when the letter is first opened, 'Well, Hetty, now I think you will be put to it to make out all that checker-work'don't you, ma'am? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Four chambers, C, E, E′, C′, are filled with fire brick loosely stacked with spaces between, in checker-work style. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Mother, please say that I am to go, urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It was bare and cool, with a table covered with a coarse checkered cloth and adorned by a bottle of pickles and a blueberry pie under a cage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
校对:塔玛拉