Pucker
['pʌkə] or ['pʌkɚ]
解释:
(noun.) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth).
(verb.) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; 'She puckered her lips'.
(verb.) become wrinkled or drawn together; 'her lips puckered'.
贝丝录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t. & i.) To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
(n.) A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
(n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
校对:利昂
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Corrugate, cockle, wrinkle, gather into wrinkles or folds.
n. [1]. Fold, wrinkle.[2]. [Vulgar.] Confusion, bother, perplexity, agitation, flurry, bustle, flutter, excitement, discomposure, fever, fret, tremor, perturbation, FUSS.
克利奥校对
解释:
v.t. to gather into folds: to wrinkle.—n. a fold or wrinkle: a number of folds or wrinkles esp. irregular ones: (coll.) agitation confusion.—adj. Puck′ery astringent: tending to wrinkle.
手打:西格蒙德
例句:
- Then your eyes ceased to pucker, but you continued to look across, and your face was thoughtful. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- When I at last drew him down on to the sofa, his mouth and eyelids were all puckered on one side, and I saw that he had a stroke. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Suddenly her face puckered, her brow was knit with thought, she seemed twisted in troublesome effort for utterance. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- He peered at me with great curiosity in his puckered eyes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He looks like a skinned rabbit with a puckered-up old-man's face. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Then she puckered those divine brows of hers, and shook her head. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- She drew herself up, puckered her black eyebrows, but still looked puzzled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
校对:莱利亚