Chipping
['tʃɪpɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chip
(n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
(n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
(n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
校對:维多利亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Thirty years ago, the cost of labour for turning a surface of cast iron, by chipping and filing with the hand, was 12s. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I wonder you did not go out of your mind in that smoky London, chipping away at marble and cutting it out. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Pilgrims were too much given to chipping off pieces of it to carry home. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Even of that marble-chipping you call art? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
校對:潘西