Daub
[dɔːb] or [dɔb]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an unskillful painting.
(noun.) material used to daub walls.
(verb.) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; 'smear the wall with paint'; 'daub the ceiling with plaster'.
(verb.) apply to a surface; 'daub paint onto the wall'.
錄入:莉娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
(v. t.) To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
(v. t.) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
(v. t.) To flatter excessively or glossy.
(v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
(v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.
(n.) A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.
(n.) A picture coarsely executed.
卡尔文校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Smear, besmear, plaster, cover, bedaub, begrime.
n. Coarse painting.
埃西手打
同義詞及反義詞:
[See BEDAUB]
黛西手打
解釋/意思:
v.t. to smear: to paint coarsely.—n. a coarse painting.—ns. Daub′er one who daubs: a coarse painter; Daub′ery Daub′ry (Shak.) a daubing or crudely artful device; Daub′ing.—adj. Daub′y sticky.
校對:西蒙
例句/造句/用法:
- Fraud and robbery are high-sounding words--justified, you think, by a fancied resemblance in some young imp to an idle daub of a dead man's Brother! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Quickly he unslung his bow and fitted a well-daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang, the tiny missile leaped to meet her in mid-air. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings of an unknown purport (see illus. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In more recent times the design was cut in relief on hard wood, the relief being then daubed with coloring matter and applied by hand to successive portions of the cloth. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There is something in daubing a little one's self, and having an idea of the process. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:奥菲莉娅