Webster
['wɛbstɚ]
解释:
(noun.) United States lexicographer (1758-1843).
(noun.) United States politician and orator (1782-1817).
(noun.) English playwright (1580-1625).
乔整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A weaver; originally, a female weaver.
汉克整理
解释:
n. (obs.) a weaver.
校对:诺艾尔
例句:
- It was metal, ‘elastic metal,’ as Daniel Webster termed it, that could be wound round the finger, or tied into a knot, and which preserved its elasticity like steel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Sir Richard Webster, now Chief-Justice of England, was my counsel, and sustained all of my patents in England for many years. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Webster, of my staff, had arranged twenty or more pieces of artillery facing south or up the river. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Webster has a marvellous capacity for understanding things scientific; and his address before the courts was lucidity itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The corner stones of the extension were laid by President Fillmore in 1851, Daniel Webster being the orator of the occasion, and the wings were finished in 1867. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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