Axe
[æks]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
(-) Alt. of Axeman
錄入:威廉姆斯
解釋/意思:
n. a well-known tool or instrument for hewing or chopping usually of iron with a steel edge:—pl. Ax′es.
布丽奇特編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Seeing an axe in a dream, foretells that what enjoyment you may have will depend on your struggles and energy. To see others using an axe, foretells, your friends will be energetic and lively, making existence a pleasure when near them. For a young woman to see one, portends her lover will be worthy, but not possessed with much wealth. A broken or rusty axe, indicates illness and loss of money and property.
校對:马奇
例句/造句/用法:
- Saint Mary Axe! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer implements, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But come, the back door is unlocked; there's an axe there, I put it there,--his room door is open; I'll show you the way. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- If it were the deuce's own scribble, and yo' axed me to read in it for yo'r sake, and th' oud gentleman's, I'd do it. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Godfrey read it, and fell back in a chair as if he had been pole-axed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- I feel the rack pass over my body like the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The crew had been able to muster but six firearms, so most of them were armed with boat hooks, axes, hatchets and crowbars. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- These were probably used as hand-axes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers--axes, picks, and spades. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I'd a deal sooner be flogged mysel'; but yo're not a common wench, axing yo'r pardon, nor yet have yo' common ways about yo'. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
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