Hieroglyphic
[haɪrə'glɪfɪk] or [,haɪərə'glɪfɪk]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols .
(adj.) resembling hieroglyphic writing .
整理:萨莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
(a.) Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark.
(a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphical
科尔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Emblematical, symbolical.
校對:谢尔比
例句/造句/用法:
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I tried the morning-room, and found him at laSt. There he was at the window, drawing hieroglyphics with his finger in the damp on the glass. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I looked with amazement at the absurd hieroglyphics upon the paper. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Here is a copy of the hieroglyphics: GRAPHIC Excellent! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- He took a pen upon the instant, and wrote the following note (in appropriate hieroglyphics) to his brother: Dear Jack,—All up at Coketown. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- These hieroglyphics have evidently a meaning. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The American civilizations had picture-writing of a primitive sort, but it never developed even to the pitch of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:路易斯