Chisel
['tʃɪz(ə)l] or ['tʃɪzl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge.
(verb.) carve with a chisel; 'chisel the marble'.
整理:洛厄尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
手打:玛丽安
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Cut, carve, sculpture.
整理:莱斯利
解釋/意思:
n. an iron or steel tool to cut or hollow out wood stone &c.: esp. the tool of the sculptor.—v.t. to cut carve &c. with a chisel: (slang) to cheat:—pr.p. chis′elling; pa.p. chis′elled.—adj. Chis′elled cut with a chisel; (fig.) having sharp outlines as cut by a chisel.—n. Chis′elling.—adj. Chis′el-shaped.—n. Chis′el-tooth the scalpriform perennial incisor of a rodent.
n. See Chesil.
編輯:马丁
例句/造句/用法:
- A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The resemblance is correct; the head is a copy from the excellent bust produced by the chisel of Houdon. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Have you the chisel and the bags? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It was evident that a chisel or strong knife had been thrust in, and the lock forced back with it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The blanks, as the steel before it has teeth is called, are laid on the anvil and struck with the chisel, which rests obliquely on the blank, each blow raising a ridge or tooth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Wrapped around the cylinder was a sheet of tinfoil, with which engaged a small chisel-like recording needle, connected adhesively with the centre of an iron diaphragm. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Table knives, plane irons and chisels of a very superior kind are made of shear steel, while common steel is wrought up into ordinary cutlery. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Another difficulty was the lack of proper tools; but he worked at these until his box was supplied with a stock of knives, saws, chisels, and gravers of many different patterns. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I charge you, when you next look on your father's monument, to respect the name chiselled there. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- One man in times of old, it is said, imparted vitality to the statue he had chiselled; others may have the contrary gift of turning life to stone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If those illustrious artists had in truth chiselled these forms, how many passing generations had their giant proportions outlived! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It is like his face--just like the chiselling of his features: do you know his autograph? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
手打:路易