Scythe
[saɪð]
解释:
(noun.) an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground.
(verb.) cut with a scythe; 'scythe grass or grain'.
拜伦整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
(n.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
(v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
安妮编辑
解释:
n. a kind of sickle: an instrument with a large curved blade for mowing grass &c.—v.t. to cut with a scythe to mow.—adj. Scythed armed with scythes.—ns. Scythe′man one who uses a scythe; Scythe′-stone a whet for scythes.
整理:皮尔斯
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will prevent you from attending to your affairs, or making journeys. An old or broken scythe, implies separation from friends, or failure in some business enterprise.
克莱夫整理
例句:
- Gradually the blade of the scythe was made lighter, the handle was lengthened, and fingers added to collect the grain and carry it to the end of the stroke. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Above the blade of a scythe were arranged a set of fingers projecting from a post in the scythe snath. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The machine did the work of the original man with the sickle or scythe and that of the cradler, and having cut the grain left it in loose piles on the ground. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The scythe is still a familiar tool on our farms, but it serves other purposes than that of being the sole means of harvesting grain. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The scythe, which is a development from the sickle, enables the operator to use both hands instead of one. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The wheat was going to waste, for there were not enough scythes and sickles to cut it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Of these Darius had a force of two hundred, and each chariot had scythes attached to its wheels and to the pole and body of the chariot. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In 1799, Boyce, of England, had a vertical shaft with six rotating scythes beneath the frame of the implement. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The colonists, when they settled in this country, probably brought with them all the European types of sickles and scythes, and out of them evolved the cradle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Nearly all of these early reapers relied upon scythes or cutters with a rotary motion or vibrating shears. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
校对:斯宾塞