Cobweb
['kɒbweb] or ['kɑb'wɛb]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web.
(noun.) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider.
(noun.) a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
(n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
(n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
(n.) The European spotted flycatcher.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Spider's web.
手打:柴门霍夫
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Trifle, cipher, moonshine, prejudice, bugbear, phantasy, caprice
ANT:Substance, verity, axiom, law, reality, perpetuity, institution, truth
手打:玛莎
解釋/意思:
n. the spider's web or net: any snare or device intended to entrap: anything flimsy or easily broken: anything that obscures.—n. Cobweb′bery.—adj. Cob′webby.
手打:奈杰尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I sweep your cobweb projects from my path, that I may pass on unsullied. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Over all the legal neighbourhood there hangs, like some great veil of rust or gigantic cobweb, the idleness and pensiveness of the long vacation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Hearts confined by cobwebs would burst at last, and then Love was avenged. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Who of any dignity would take the trouble to clear cobwebs from a wild man's mind after such language as this? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Clocks tick so loud, too, when you are sitting up alone, and you seem as if you had an under-garment of cobwebs on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It brushes the Newgate cobwebs away, and pleases the Aged. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I have come to clean away these cobwebs, said Yeobright. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She was brown with the dust and draped with the cobwebs which had come from the walls of her hiding-place. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- And I have a liking for rust and must and cobwebs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Boxes and lumber filled it; old dresses draped its unstained wall--cobwebs its unswept ceiling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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