Clod
[klɒd] or [klɑd]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
(n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
(n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
(n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt
(n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
(v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.
(v. t.) To pelt with clods.
(v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.
整理:莉莲
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Lump of earth.[2]. Ground, earth, turf, sod.
安格斯校對
解釋/意思:
n. a thick round mass or lump that sticks together esp. of earth or turf: a concreted mass: the ground: the body of man as formed of clay: a stupid fellow.—v.t. to pelt.—v.i. to throw clods: (Scot.) to throw:—pr.p. clod′ding; pa.p. clod′ded.—adjs. Clod′dish; Clod′dy abounding in clods: earthy.—n. Clod′hopper a countryman: a peasant: a dolt.—adj. Clodhop′ping boorish.—adv. Clod′ly.—ns. Clod′pate Clod′poll a stupid fellow.—adj. Clodpat′ed stupid.
哈洛錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- She took a little clod of earth from the broken ground where he had stumbled, and threw it in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He was just in the act of throwing a clod at a mud-turtle which was sunning itself on a small log in the brook. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Those words fell on his heart like clods upon a coffin. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Are they really animals and clods, and beings of another order? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- At one side of the pool rough steps built of clods enabled everyone who wished to do so to mount the bank; which the woman did. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
格里菲思校對