Hewn
[hjʊn]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; 'a house built of hewn logs'; 'rough-hewn stone'; 'a path hewn through the underbrush' .
费格斯錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(-) of Hew
(a.) Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
(a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
整理:米歇尔
例句/造句/用法:
- We arrived at a tumble-down old rookery called the Palazzo Simonetti--a massive hewn-stone affair occupied by a family of ragged Italians. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In one side of it two ancient tombs are hewn, which are claimed to be those in which Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathea were buried. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It was modelled on that of Athens,—a large semicircle hewn out of the volcanic rock, with seats of the red limestone so frequent in Melnos. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- And there are obstacles in the way: they must be hewn down. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
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