Canvas
['kænvəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents).
(noun.) the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; 'the boxer picked himself up off the canvas'.
(noun.) an oil painting on canvas fabric.
(noun.) the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; 'the crowded canvas of history'; 'the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound'.
(verb.) cover with canvas; 'She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks'.
克莱尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
(n.) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
(n.) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
(n.) Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
(n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
(a.) Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
校對:维多利亚
解釋/意思:
n. a coarse cloth made of hemp used for sails tents &c. and for painting on: the sails of a ship.—v.t. to cover with canvas.—ns. Can′vas-back a North American duck very good eating its back ashy white crossed by broken zigzag dark lines; Can′vas-climb′er (Shak.) a sailor; Can′vas-stretch′er a wooden frame on which canvas is stretched for oil-painting; Can′vas-work embroidery upon cloth over which canvas has been laid to guide the stitches: an embroidery in Berlin wool on silk canvas with plush-stitch.—Under canvas having the sails unfurled under sail: living in tents.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A single suit of her sails consisted of 15,563 yards of canvas. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I don't quite know, ma'am,' said Oliver, without taking his eyes from the canvas; 'I have seen so few that I hardly know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The grass was lush underfoot after the pineneedle floor of the forest and the dew on the grass wet through their canvas rope-soled shoes. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- These pictures are all battle scenes, and only one solitary little canvas among them all treats of anything but great French victories. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The superficies yields to the soil, says the civil law: The writing to the paper: The canvas to the picture. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The reasoning is perilously like that of the gifted lady amateur who expects to achieve greatness by imitating the paint box and palette, oils and canvases of an artist. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There were a dozen easels in the room, and as many artists transferring the great picture to their canvases. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Probably no organized piece of machinery has ever been so systematically exploited, so thoroughly advertised, so persistently canvassed, and so extensively sold as the sewing machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In those days, this matter of slavery had never been canvassed as it has now; nobody dreamed of any harm in it. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He had canvassed eagerly for this post. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We think so very differently on this point, Mr. Knightley, that there can be no use in canvassing it. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
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