Carve
[kɑːv] or [kɑrv]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) cut to pieces; 'Father carved the ham'.
(verb.) form by carving; 'Carve a flower from the ice'.
(verb.) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; 'carve one's name into the bark'.
手打:诺娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cut.
(v. t.) To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
(v. t.) To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
(v. t.) To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
(v. t.) To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
(v. t.) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
(v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
(v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
(v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
(n.) A carucate.
布雷迪錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Sculpture, chisel, cut.[2]. Form, shape, fashion, mould.[3]. Engrave, grave.[4]. Cut in pieces or slices.
v. n. [1]. Exercise the trade of a carver.[2]. Cut meat at table.
朱厄尔錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cut into forms devices &c.: to make or shape by cutting: to cut up (meat) into slices or pieces: to apportion or distribute: (Shak.) to speak with suavity.—v.i. to exercise the trade of a sculptor.—p.adj. Carv′en carved.—ns. Carv′er one who carves: a sculptor: a carving-knife; Carv′ing the act or art of carving a branch of sculpture usually performed on wood or ivory: the device or figure carved: the act or art of cutting up meat at table.—Carve out to hew out: to gain by one's exertions.—Cut and carve to refine.
校對:马里恩
例句/造句/用法:
- Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the Sphynx? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Oh, that I were younger, Maurice, and with you by my side, we would go to South America and carve out a kingdom. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- They did paint, and they did carve in marble, one historical scene, and one only, (of any great historical consequence. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If we are ruined, you can carve and take charge of the stable, and I can be a governess to Lady Jane's children. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I'd carve her name as often as she liked. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- We might carve them in holly-wood, playing against a background of green leaves. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Hence the carved names. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He was the hero of her imagination, the image carved by love in the unchanged texture of her heart. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I have lived my last winter, and the date of this year, 2092, will be carved upon my tomb. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Raphael, Angelo, Canova--giants like these gave birth to the designs, and their own pupils carved them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I have two water-wagtails, carved in wood, and painted--perhaps you have seen it? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A similar process of embossing, was devised in Paris and called Xyloplasty, by which steam-softened wood is compressed in carved moulds, which give it bas-relief impressions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Complicated Ornamental Wood-cutting and Carving Machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Inside was a large room in which fifty workers were carving or moulding. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Rest the eyes when they hurt, and as far as possible do close work, such as writing, reading, sewing, wood carving, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Another Englishman, Braithwaite, in 1840, invented a most attractive carving process in which, instead of cutting tools, he employed _burning_ as his agent. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- No; I could manage the carving-knife better. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The carving of stone by machinery is now a sister branch of wood carving. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Here, guard, pick up that gentleman's carving-knife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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