Hedge
[hedʒ] or [hɛdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
(noun.) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; 'when you say `maybe' you are just hedging'.
(noun.) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change.
(verb.) minimize loss or risk; 'diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks'; 'hedge your bets'.
(verb.) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); 'He dodged the issue'; 'she skirted the problem'; 'They tend to evade their responsibilities'; 'he evaded the questions skillfully'.
(verb.) enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; 'hedge the property'.
(verb.) hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; 'The animals were hedged in'.
整理:利亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
(v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
(v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
(v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
(v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
(v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
(v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
(v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
校對:谢尔比
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Fence (of bushes or shrubs), hedge-fence.
v. a. Enclose with a hedge.
錄入:昆西
解釋/意思:
n. a thicket of bushes: a fence round a field &c.: any means of protection.—v.t. to enclose with a hedge: to obstruct: to surround: to guard: to protect one's self from loss by betting on both sides.—v.i. to shuffle: to be shifty: to skulk.—ns. Hedge′bill Hedg′ing-bill a bill or hatchet for dressing hedges.—adj. Hedge′-born of low birth as if born under a hedge or in the woods: low: obscure.—ns. Hedge′bote an old word for the right of a tenant to cut wood on the farm or land for repairing the hedges or fences; Hedge′-creep′er a sneaking rogue; Hedge′hog a small prickly-backed quadruped so called from living in hedges and bushes and its resemblance to a hog or pig; Hedge′hog-plant a species of medick having the pods spirally twisted and rolled up into a ball beset with spines; Hedge′hog-this′tle hedgehog-cactus; Hedge′-hyss′op a European perennial plant of the figwort family with emetic and purgative qualities; Hedge′-knife an instrument for trimming hedges; Hedge′-mar′riage a clandestine marriage; Hedge′-mus′tard a genus of plants of order Crucifer annual or rarely perennial with small yellow or white flowers; Hedge′-note a valueless literary attempt; Hedge′-par′son a mean parson generally illiterate; Hedge′pig (Shak.) a young hedgehog; Hedge′-priest an ignorant itinerant priest; Hedg′er one who dresses hedges; Hedge′row a row of trees or shrubs for hedging fields; Hedge′-school an open-air school kept by the side of a hedge in Ireland; Hedge′-shrew the field-mouse; Hedge′-sparr′ow Hedge′-war′bler a little singing bird like a sparrow which frequents hedges; Hedge′-writ′er a Grub-street author; Hedg′ing the work of a hedger.—adj. Hedg′y.
科琳錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of hedges of evergreens, denotes joy and profit. Bare hedges, foretells distress and unwise dealings. If a young woman dreams of walking beside a green hedge with her lover, it foretells that her marriage will soon be consummated. If you dream of being entangled in a thorny hedge, you will be hampered in your business by unruly partners or persons working under you. To lovers, this dream is significant of quarrels and jealousies.
埃莉诺手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A fence.
奥布里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- A rustle in a field beyond the hedge attracted his attention. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I descended to the bottom of the hollow, squeezed my way through a hedge, and got out into a lane. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Malone took a direct course through them, jumping hedge and wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But anyone who makes the tariff the principal concern of statecraft is, I believe, mistaking the hedge for the house. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A bird flying to the hedge,' was all he thought about it; and came back, and resumed his walk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- So the poor knight is to be left sticking in the hedge, is he? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They longed to see a human figure, of a certain mould and height, pass the hedge and enter the gate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Paths, hedges, fields, houses, and trees, were enveloped in one deep shade. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Surely the hedges are shaped and measured and their symmetry preserved by the most architectural of gardeners. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Bonello turned off and followed him and then Piani worked his way out and we followed the two ambulances ahead along the narrow road between hedges. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For years I've been dreaming of the bright green fields and the hedges of England. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- You are hedged round and round. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
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