Wrinkle
['rɪŋk(ə)l] or ['rɪŋkl]
解释:
(noun.) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different).
(noun.) a minor difficulty; 'they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out'.
(noun.) a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; 'his face has many lines'; 'ironing gets rid of most wrinkles'.
(verb.) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'The dress got wrinkled'; 'crease the paper like this to make a crane'.
埃尔希编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A winkle.
(n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
(n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.
(n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
(v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
(v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
(v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
艾维斯编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Furrow, crease, fold, plait, gather, pucker, rumple, corrugation, rimple.[2]. [Colloquial.] Notion, whim, fancy, whimsey, caprice, crotchet, vagary, freak, quirk, maggot.
v. a. Corrugato, crease, rumple, cockle, pucker, crumple.
阿方索整理
解释:
n. (coll.) a tip valuable hint.
n. a small ridge on a surface caused by twisting or shrinking: unevenness.—v.t. to contract into wrinkles or furrows: to make rough.—v.i. to shrink into ridges.—adj. Wrink′ly full of wrinkles: liable to be wrinkled.
整理:洛蒂
娱乐性解释：
A merchant's trade-marks.
整理:拉尔夫
例句:
- That's a pity, now, Josh, said Raffles, affecting to scratch his head and wrinkle his brows upward as if he were nonplussed. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- His marks and wrinkles were innumerable. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He had thick bushy eyebrows, with little twinkling bloodshot eyes, surrounded by a thousand wrinkles. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Mrs. Peniston was a small plump woman, with a colourless skin lined with trivial wrinkles. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Stretch them on a bosom-board, and with a damp cloth rub out all the wrinkles. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Did you notice any wrinkles over my nose this evening, Pa? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- A long silence ensued; during which the Jew was plunged in deep thought, with his face wrinkled into an expression of villainy perfectly demoniacal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Her fingers were white and wrinkled with washing, and the soap-suds were yet smoking which she wiped off her arms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- A fair stave, Grandfer Cantle; but I am afeard 'tis too much for the mouldy weasand of such a old man as you, he said to the wrinkled reveller. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- For a minute he was a little stiff, and stood wrinkling his copper-coloured forehead strangely. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Loerke laughed, wrinkling up his face oddly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
整理:鲁道夫