Blot
[blɒt] or [blɑt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; 'he made a huge blot on his copybook'.
(verb.) dry (ink) with blotting paper.
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解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
(v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
(v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
(v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.
(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
(v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
(v. i.) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
(n.) A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
(n.) An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
(n.) A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
(n.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
(n.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
(n.) A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
編輯:史蒂夫
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, expunge, rub out, blot out, scratch out, strike out.[2]. Spot, stain, blur, disfigure.[3]. Tarnish, sully, disgrace.
n. [1]. Obliteration, erasure, blotting.[2]. Blur, spot, stain, blemish.[3]. Disgrace, cause of reproach.
柏妮丝手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Obscure, tarnish, spoil, sully, spot, discolor, pollute, obliterate, erase,blur, stain, blotch, smear, smutch
ANT:Elucidate, clear, absterge, perpetuate, cleanse, manifest, conserve
以利沙整理
解釋/意思:
n. a piece liable to be taken at backgammon: a weak place in anything.
n. a spot or stain: an obliteration as of something written: a stain in reputation.—v.t. to spot or stain: to obliterate or destroy: to disgrace: to dry writing with blotting-paper:—pr.p. blot′ting; pa.p. blot′ted.—n. and adj. Blot′tesque a painting executed with heavy blot-like touches a daub or (fig.) a vigorous descriptive sketch.—n. Blotting-pā′per unsized paper used for absorbing ink.—adj. Blot′ty.
整理:露丝
例句/造句/用法:
- And that money-winning business is really a blot. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Behold ambition on his brow, And on his nose, a blot. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They have tried to blot out human prestige, to minimize the influence of personality. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The letter never reached its destination; but that, and other proofs, she kept, in case they ever tried to lie away the blot. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, To mark the full-fraught man and best indued With some suspicion. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It is dim enough, with a blot-headed candle or so in the windows, and an old man and a cat sitting in the back part by a fire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- If it had been written straight off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The heath and changes of weather were quite blotted out from their eyes for the present. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The name of the firm is accidentally blotted in my diary, and my sacred regard for truth forbids me to hazard a guess in a matter of this kind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It's very much blotted, sir,' said the farmer of infants; 'but it's formal enough, I dare say. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- A vast shadow, in which could be dimly traced portions of a masculine contour, blotted half the ceiling. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Allow the paper to remain half a minute, and then dip it into water, and again dry it lightly with blotting paper. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- After being placed for an instant between blotting paper, to remove superfluous moisture, it is laid with the drawing downwards on the stone, which is slightly warmed. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Behind, was a high shadow of a peak, blotting out the stars, like a ghoSt. They drew near to their home. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Then dip it into a vessel of water; remove the water on the surface by blotting paper, and dry it by a fire, in the dark or by candle-light. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- This flows too easily, and even using the greatest care I can hardly keep from blotting it. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- You must find your own ink, pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The two or three lines which follow contain fragments of words only, mingled with blots and scratches of the pen. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Every drop blots out a sin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was feeble and faint, and defaced by blots, but had otherwise nothing to distinguish it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
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