Litter
['lɪtə] or ['lɪtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers.
(noun.) the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal.
(noun.) rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places).
(verb.) give birth to a litter of animals.
(verb.) make a place messy by strewing garbage around.
(verb.) strew; 'Cigar butts littered the ground'.
布莱恩錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
(n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
(n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
(n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
(n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
(v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
(v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
(v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
(v. i.) To produce a litter.
多琳校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Vehicle with a bed (borne by hand).[2]. Bedding of straw, hay, &c.[3]. Things negligently scattered.[4]. Brood.
v. a. [1]. Cover with straw, hay, &c., for bedding.[2]. Cover with things negligently scattered.[3]. Give birth to (said of quadrupeds), bring forth.
手打:洛葛仙妮
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Scatter, mislay, discompose, disorder, derange
ANT:Clear, clean, order, lay, methodize, arrange
錄入:曼蒂
解釋/意思:
n. a heap of straw &c. for animals to lie upon: materials for a bed: any scattered collection of objects esp. of little value: a vehicle containing a bed for carrying about a hospital stretcher: a brood of small quadrupeds.—v.t. to cover or supply with litter: to scatter carelessly about: to give birth to (said of small animals).—v.i. to produce a litter or brood.—p.adj. Litt′ered.
黛尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I shall find the means I want for keeping it safe and dry in its hiding-place, among the litter of old things in Mrs. Yolland's kitchen. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They found Winifred at the lodge admiring the litter of purebred white puppies. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Virginia squatters) added, we select the black members of a litter for raising, as they alone have a good chance of living. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I had a steamer stop at the nearest point possible, and was carried to it on a litter. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Nay, let them place him in my litter, said Rebecca; I will mount one of the palfreys. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Silas receives one from his hand, which Venus takes from a wonderful litter in a drawer, and putting on his spectacles, reads: '“Mr Venus,”' 'Yes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The place in front was littered with straw where the vans had been laden and rolled off. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The carpet round his chair was littered with cigarette-ends and with the early editions of the morning papers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- His weapons and shields and other little store of treasures were littered about. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He took it, standing at the littered bar, and looked loweringly at a man who stood where Riderhood had stood that early morning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The desks were littered with catkins, hazel and willow, which the children had been sketching. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It was a desert, weed-grown waste, littered thickly with stones the size of a man's fist. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
錄入:曼蒂