Gig
[gɪg] or [ɡɪɡ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a booking for musicians; 'they played a gig in New Jersey'.
(noun.) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood.
(noun.) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain.
(noun.) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing.
(noun.) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting.
整理:朱莉安娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A fiddle.
(v. t.) To engender.
(n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
(v. t.) To fish with a gig.
(n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
手打:奥拉夫
解釋/意思:
n. a light two-wheeled carriage: a long light boat: (U.S.) sport fun.—v.t. and v.i. Gig′git (U.S.) to convey or move rapidly.—ns. Gig′man one who drives or keeps a gig—a favourite term of Carlyle's for a narrow philistinism based on the possession of a little more money than others whence Gig′maness Gigman′ity Gig′mānia.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To run a gig in your dream, you will have to forego a pleasant journey to entertain unwelcome visitors. Sickness also threatens you. See Cart.
錄入:赖安
例句/造句/用法:
- She was engaged to breakfast that morning with the Duchess of Beltshire, and at twelve o'clock she asked to be set ashore in the gig. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Tell him, when he theeth that gig clothe by, to jump down, and it'll take him off at a rattling pathe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- That is Mrs. Waule's gig--the last yellow gig left, I should think. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Put up the gig afterwards. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mr. Vholes rose, gloved and buttoned up as usual, and seated himself again, just as he had seated himself beside Richard in the gig. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mr. Yorke, after having alighted from his gig, which he left in charge of a man who issued from an outbuilding on his arrival, led the way in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My employer drove home through it in his gig, and reached the house wetted to the skin. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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