Gnaw
[nɔː] or [nɔ]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.
(v. t.) To bite in agony or rage.
(v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
(v. i.) To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.
埃米尔編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Bite, nibble, champ, nibble at, keep biting.[2]. Corrode, eat away, wear away.
手打:奥斯伯特
解釋/意思:
v.t. to bite so as to make a noise with the teeth: to bite off by degrees: to corrode or wear away: to bite in agony or rage: (fig.) to torment.—v.i. to use the teeth in biting.—n. Gnaw′er a rodent.
手打:谢莉
例句/造句/用法:
- Mention that, if you please, to your companions, and never gnaw at the bars of your cage again as long as you live. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I'd be willing to live in the swamps, and gnaw the bark from trees. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But the idea of Beaufort gnawed him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Usually he was ashy and wretched, with all the life gnawed out of him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Still she was gnawed as by a neuralgia, tormented by his potential absence from her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But the rough wall of wax has in every case to be finished off, by being largely gnawed away on both sides. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I only know the result was as if I had gnawed a file to satisfy hunger, or drank brine to quench thirSt. My hour of torment was the post-hour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But he avoided her look, she sank her head in torment and shame, the gnawing at her heart going on. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- She gnaws her chain; I see the white teeth working at the steel! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If you knew the harassing anxiety that gnaws and wears me when I am wandering in those places--where are those endless places, Mortimer? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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