Parchment
['pɑːtʃm(ə)nt] or ['pɑrtʃmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on.
(noun.) a superior paper resembling sheepskin.
錄入:劳伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
(n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
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解釋/意思:
n. the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on.—Parchment paper or Vegetable parchment (see Paper).—Virgin parchment a fine kind of parchment made from the skins of new-born lambs or kids.
整理:劳拉
例句/造句/用法:
- A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sign there, he repeated, turning suddenly on Laura, and pointing once more to the place on the parchment. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Until that time books had to be written upon parchment or papyrus, and after the Arab conquest of Egypt Europe was cut off from the papyrus supply. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Here it is,' said Fogg, handing over a square book, with a parchment cover. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The confined room, strong of parchment-grease, is warehouse, counting-house, and copying-office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- My own convictions led me to believe that the hidden contents of the parchment concealed a transaction of the meanest and the most fraudulent kind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They do not seem to have had paper or to have used parchment. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We refuse to sanction these indentures,' said the old gentleman: tossing aside the piece of parchment as he spoke. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The sheepskin was fresh dried and not tanned and as Robert Jordan rested his stocking feet on it he could feel it crackle like parchment. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He danced about us and tapped the parchment with his finger: What I tell you, genteelmen! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He lifted up the parchment, and struck it angrily on the table. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- One was to obtain your signature to the parchment. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Beg your pardon, Mr. Pickwick,' said Jackson, deliberately depositing his hat on the floor, and drawing from his pocket the strip of parchment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Meanwhile Sir Percival unlocked a cupboard beneath one of the book-cases, and produced from it a piece of parchment, folded longwise, many times over. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The promise to pay so much silver or gold on leather (= parchment) with the seal of some established firm is probably as old or older than coinage. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:托妮