Fuller
['fʊlə] or [fʊlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living.
(noun.) United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983).
(noun.) United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910).
整理:马库斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) One whose occupation is to full cloth.
(a.) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.
(v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.
編輯:娜塔莎
解釋/意思:
n. a half-round set-hammer.
费利西亚編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He felt his limbs growing fuller and flexible with life, his body gained an unknown strength. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Here, therefore, promises come naturally in play, and are often required for fuller satisfaction and security. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- As for Rosamond, she was in the water-lily's expanding wonderment at its own fuller life, and she too was spinning industriously at the mutual web. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- With the invention of writing, which developed out of pictorial record, human tradition was able to become fuller and much more exact. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Her eyes were bright, their pupils dilated, her cheeks seemed rosier, and fuller than usual. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I wish I had space here to give a fuller abstract of Mr. Agassiz's interesting observations on the development of the pedicellariae. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- A little older she looks; her form a little fuller; her air more matronly than of yore; but evidently contented and happy as woman need be. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He is fuller of boredom than a steer drawing a cart on the highroad. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I should like to have fuller knowledge about him, uncle, and judge for myself, if Mr. Casaubon has not left any expression of his wishes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You are probably aware that fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found in one or two places in England? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- His ideas are not clean, Mr. Moore; they want scouring with soft soap and fuller's earth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade of initiation. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- One sets out to give his impulses for communication and for fuller intercourse with others a show. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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