Mat
[mæt]
解释:
(noun.) a thick flat pad used as a floor covering.
(noun.) sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports.
(noun.) a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it.
(noun.) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture.
(noun.) a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven; 'a mat of weeds and grass'.
手打:罗莎琳德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
(a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
(n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
(n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
(n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
(n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
(v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
(v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
(v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
手打:西摩
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Braid, weave, plait, plat.
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解释:
adj. and n. having a dull or dead surface without lustre: an instrument by means of which such is produced.—v.t. to produce such a surface on metal.
n. a texture of sedge rushes straw &c. for cleaning the feet on: a web of rope-yarn: an ornamental border for a picture: a piece of cloth &c. put below dishes on a table: anything like a mat in appearance thick and closely set: any interwoven structure used as a revetment on river-banks &c.: a sack of matting used to cover tea and coffee chests such a sack containing a certain quantity of coffee: the closely-worked portion of lace: any annular pad to protect the head in bearing burdens.—v.t. to cover with mats: to interweave: to entangle:—pr.p. mat′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. mat′ted.
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娱乐性解释：
Keep away from mats in your dreams, as they will usher you into sorrow and perplexities.
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例句:
- The visitor, however, brought himself up safely on the door-mat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I thought he never would have done wiping his feet, and that I must have gone out to lift him off the mat, but at last he came in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Mat, said Mr. George, you have heard pretty well all I have been saying to this lady and these two gentlemen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Through the greater part of Europe, a kitchen garden is not at present supposed to deserve a better inclosure than mat recommended by Columella. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Why, bless her, Mat, returns the trooper, I think the higher of her for it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- You are right, Mat! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Twice had he entered huts at night while the inmates lay sleeping upon their mats, and stolen the arrows from the very sides of the warriors. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- It is then worked into sheets or mats between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The fronds are wrought into baskets, brooms, mats, sacks and many other useful articles; and the trunks are made into boats, and furnish timber for the construction of houses. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Miss Kate sketched and Frank talked to Beth, who was making little mats of braided rushes to serve as plates. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- We visited the jail and found Moorish prisoners making mats and baskets. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- My slippers were thin: I could walk the matted floor as softly as a cat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- This combed out the matted tow of the hemp into clean, straight fiber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- And so he started, stumbling back through the thick and matted underbrush in the direction that he thought the cabin lay. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Its untouched mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hardy pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Do you remember the matted-up currant bushes, Margaret, at the corner of the west-wall in the garden at home? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- For several hours he traveled a little north of east until he came to an impenetrable wall of matted and tangled vegetation. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- A piece of matting has been laid here at the side, and we have all stood upon that. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The laborers and their families sleep in hammocks or on matting on the floor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Matting is woven; wire, cane, straw, spun glass; in fact, everything that can be woven by hand into useful articles now finds its especially constructed machine for weaving it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The fibrous coat of the nut is made into a preparation called cellulose, which is described in another story in this book, and also into the well-known cocoanut matting. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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