Flake
[fleɪk] or [flek]
解释:
(verb.) cover with flakes or as if with flakes.
(verb.) form into flakes; 'The substances started to flake'.
詹尼弗编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A paling; a hurdle.
(n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(v. t.) To form into flakes.
(v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
手打:特伦斯
同义词及近义词：
n. Scale, lamina, layer.
v. n. Scale off, come off in flakes.
手打:罗谢尔
解释:
n. (Scot.) a movable hurdle for fencing; (naut.) a stage hung over a ship's side for caulking &c.
n. a small flat layer or film of anything: a very small loose mass as of snow or wool.—v.t. to form into flakes.—ns. Flake′-white the purest white-lead for painting in the form of scales or plates; Flak′iness.—adj. Flak′y.
丹尼斯编辑
例句:
- Its head struck with such force that the early hunter decided to give it a sharp point, shaped from a flake of flint, in order that it might drive deep into the body of a deer or bear. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Any frescoes were good when they started to peel and flake off. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Nor that a flake of snow had ever fallen. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- You simply fastened a flake of flint in the cock and snapped it against a steel plate. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It should be noted that the layers of flake nickel extend practically unbroken across the tube and make contact with the metal wall at both sides. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- And any one could see that he shook with fear, and that there broke out upon his lips curious white flakes, like thin snow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- For a week the Grand Army struggled through mud; then came sharp frosts, and then the first flakes of snow, and then snow and snow. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- By the time they reached the camp it was snowing and the flakes were dropping diagonally through the pines. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- It was a heavy, settled fall, I recollect, in great flakes; and it lay thick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The flakes were coming heavy and fast in the rain. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- We proceeded through the snow, which lay in masses impeding the way, while the descending flakes, driving against me with redoubled fury, blinded me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It was well cooked, the rabbit meat flaked off the bones, and the sauce was delicious. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I shut one eye and peered within--it was flaked with iron rust like an old steamboat boiler. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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