Tapestry
['tæpɪstrɪ] or ['tæpəstri]
解释:
(noun.) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
(noun.) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery.
(noun.) something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; 'the tapestry of European history'.
格特鲁德编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
(v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
埃利斯手打
解释:
n. an ornamental textile used for the covering of walls and furniture and for curtains and hangings—divided into two classes according as they are made in high-warp (haute lisse) or low-warp (basse lisse) looms.—v.t. to adorn with tapestry—n. Tap′et (Spens.).
整理:丽纳
娱乐性解释：
To dream of seeing rich tapestry, foretells that luxurious living will be to your liking, and if the tapestries are not worn or ragged, you will be able to gratify your inclinations. If a young woman dreams that her rooms are hung with tapestry, she will soon wed some one who is rich and above her in standing.
手打:威特
例句:
- A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Thus Celia, mutely bending over her tapestry, until she heard her sister calling her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I carried my report to where he sat in the old tapestry-hung dining-room with his two prisoners before him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Well, then, turn the tapestry, said the Jewess, and let me see the other side. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The bed was adorned with the same rich tapestry, and surrounded with curtains dyed with purple. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Lily had an odd sense of being behind the social tapestry, on the side where the threads were knotted and the loose ends hung. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- They are the ornamental tapestry of history, and no part of the building. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The magnificent rugs and tapestries of Persia and Turkey, and the silks of India and Japan, give evidence that a knowledge of dyes is widespread and ancient. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The walls of the apartment were completely hung with splendid tapestries which hid any windows or doors which may have pierced them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The walls of this room were hung with transparent tapestries behind which I secreted myself without being apprehended. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- My guide drew aside one of the tapestries, disclosing a passage which encircled the room, between the hangings and the walls of the chamber. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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