Elaborate
[ɪ'læb(ə)rət] or [ɪ'læbəret]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) work out in detail; 'elaborate a plan'.
(verb.) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; 'She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation'.
(verb.) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; 'The bee elaborates honey'.
(adj.) marked by complexity and richness of detail; 'an elaborate lace pattern' .
校對:谢尔曼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
(v. t.) To produce with labor
(v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
阿方斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Bestow labor upon, work out.[2]. Improve, refine, mature, ripen, prepare thoroughly.
a. Labored, studied, high wrought, highly finished, elaborately prepared.
弗雷迪手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Execute, forge, prepare, concoct, mature
ANT:Misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue, hit, conjecture, guess, extemporize,chance
整理:塞丽娜
解釋/意思:
v.t. to labour on: to produce with labour: to take pains with: to improve by successive operations.—adj. wrought with labour: done with fullness and exactness: highly finished.—adv. Elab′orately.—ns. Elab′orateness; Elaborā′tion act of elaborating: refinement: the process by which substances are formed in the organs of animals or plants.—adj. Elab′orative.—ns. Elab′orator one who elaborates; Elab′oratory=Laboratory.
整理:温弗雷德
例句/造句/用法:
- We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Maurice took the hint, and addressed himself to the Count with an air of elaborate politeness. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A great industry of beautiful and elaborate fabrics and furnishings developed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No age has produced such a multitude of elaborate studies, and any selection was, of course, a limiting one. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The aroused public opinion which the Commission asks for cannot be held if all it has to fix upon is an elaborate series of taboos. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- On Sundays, she went to church elaborated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Farmer in 1852, had been elaborated by many ingenious inventors, notably in this country by Stearns, before Edison once again applied his mind to it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Edison elaborated this principle in two other forms--one pneumatic and one electric--the latter being in essence a reciprocating motor. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Her discretions interested him almost as much as her imprudences: he was so sure that both were part of the same carefully-elaborated plan. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Though Wildeve's fevered feeling had not been elaborated to real poetical compass, it was of the standard sort. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It was an elaborated form of the type covered by my patent No. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This form was elaborated and jeweled, and finally arched in with jeweled bands surmounted by the cross and scepter. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is enough to note that literature in particular elaborates our insight into human life, and, therefore, enables us to center our institutions more truly. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
手打:玛里琳