Patchwork
['pætʃwɜːk] or ['pætʃ'wɝk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern.
(noun.) a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together.
(noun.) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up.
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例句/造句/用法:
- When, as in Macedonia, populations are mixed in a patchwork of villages and districts, the cantonal system is imperatively needed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But this imperfectly taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- While she is gone, the surgeon abandons his hopeless investigation and covers its subject with the patchwork counterpane. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sometimes all India was a patchwork quilt of states; sometimes such empires as that of the Guptas prevailed over great areas. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mr. Cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- To Hannah I give the bandbox she wanted and all the patchwork I leave hoping she 'will remember me, when it you see'. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Certain keys were hanging on the wall, to which he now added the gate key; and his patchwork-covered bed was in a little inner division or recess. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
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