Cleave
[kliːv] or [kliv]
解释:
(verb.) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; 'cleave the bone'.
(verb.) make by cutting into; 'The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock'.
杰奎琳编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i. ) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
(v. i. ) To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
(v. i. ) To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.
(v. t.) To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
(v. t.) To part or open naturally; to divide.
(v. i.) To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
编辑:威尔玛
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Adhere, cohere, stick, hold, be attached.[2]. Cling, be united, be joined.[3]. Separate, divide, part, open, split, crack, be divided, be sundered, be severed.
v. a. Split, rive, tear asunder.
霍雷肖整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Sunder, split, divide, adhere, rend, di?sever, stick
ANT:Conserve, unite, splice, bond, cement, agglutinate, consolidate, separate,depart, desert, apostatize, secede
编辑:齐克
解释:
v.i. to stick or adhere: to unite:—pr.p. cleav′ing; pa.t. cleaved or clāve; pa.p. cleaved.—n. Cleav′ing the act of adhering.
v.t. to divide to split: to separate with violence: to go through: to pierce.—v.i. to part asunder: to crack:—pr.p. cleav′ing; pa.t. clōve or cleft; pa.p. clov′en or cleft.—adj. Cleav′able capable of being cleft.—ns. Cleav′age a condition of rocks in which they split easily into thin plates; Cleav′er one who or that which cleaves: a butcher's chopper; Cleav′ers Cliv′ers goose-grass—Galium aperine diuretic and sudorific.—adj. Cleav′ing splitting.
手打:特雷弗
例句:
- But I hope you won't take it ill that I cleave to the child closer than words can tell, for he's the last living thing left me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- There is but one alternative--to cleave to him as if I were a part of him, or to be sundered from him wide as the two poles of a sphere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The more Robert knows of Shirley the more his soul will cleave to her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The ship's prow cleaved on, with a faint noise of cleavage, into the complete night, without knowing, without seeing, only surging on. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Like a child at the breast, he cleaved intensely to her, and she could not put him away. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She cleaved to him, and he could feel his blood changing like quicksilver. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He could not forget Gudrun's lifted, offered, cleaving, reckless, yet withal mocking weight. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Gerald was excited by the desperate cleaving of Gudrun to Naomi. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Vainly striving to utter a cry of terror, with his tongue cleaving to his mouth, he rushed madly forward. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I could have pledged him with all my soul, said Athelstane, for my tongue cleaves to my palate. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I tried it on a Moslem, and clove him in twain like a doughnut. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It fell straight, and true as a die; clove the water with a scarcely audible splash; and was gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Tis cleft-wood, that's what 'tis, said Timothy Fairway. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The Austrian crown is a sort of cleft tiara, having in the middle a semicircle of gold supporting a mound and cross; the tiara rests on a circle with pendants like those of a miter. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Venn looked gloomy, threw--the die was seen to be lying in two pieces, the cleft sides uppermost. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Have the cloven tongues come down again? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- This very sword has cloven hundreds of Saracen Knights from crown to chin in those old times when Godfrey wielded it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
整理:卢修斯