Fleece
[fliːs] or [flis]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing.
(noun.) the wool of a sheep or similar animal.
(verb.) shear the wool from; 'shear sheep'.
錄入:普勒斯顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
(n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
(n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
(v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
(v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
(v. t.) To spread over as with wool.
安編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Clip, shear.[2]. Strip, rob, plunder, despoil, rifle, steal from.
整理:利亚
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Strip, despoil, shear
ANT:Invest, endow, endue
丹整理
解釋/意思:
n. the coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time: anything like a fleece.—v.t. to clip wool from: to plunder: to cover as with wool.—adjs. Fleeced having a fleece; Fleece′less.—ns. Flee′cer one who strips or plunders; Fleece′-wool that shorn from the living animal.—adj. Fleec′y woolly.
弗洛整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I should stick to it like a flea to a fleece for my own sake. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Damme, what a snowy fleece! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The cattle broke and fell back quite spontaneously, went running up the hill, their fleece waving like fire to their motion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In some provinces of Spain, I have been assured, the sheep is frequently killed merely for the sake of the fleece and the tallow. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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