Sap
[sæp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
(verb.) excavate the earth beneath.
編輯:卡罗尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
(v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
(v. t.) To pierce with saps.
(v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
(v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
(n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
巴里整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Juice (of a plant).
v. a. Mine, undermine.
整理:史黛丝
解釋/意思:
n. the vital juice of plants: (bot.) the part of the wood next to the bark: the blood: a simpleton: a plodding student.—v.i. to play the part of a ninny: to be studious.—ns. Sap′-bee′tle a beetle which feeds on sap; Sap′-col′our a vegetable juice inspissated by slow evaporation for the use of painters.—adj. Sap′ful full of sap.—ns. Sap′-green a green colouring matter from the juice of buckthorn berries; Sap′head a silly fellow.—adj. Sap′less wanting sap: not juicy.—ns. Sap′ling a young tree so called from being full of sap: a young greyhound during the year of his birth until the end of the coursing season which commences in that year; Sap′ling-cup an open tankard for drinking new ale; Sap′piness.—adj. Sap′py abounding with sap: juicy: silly.—ns. Sap′-tube a vessel that conveys sap; Sap′-wood the outer part of the trunk of a tree next the bark in which the sap flows most freely: albumen.—Crude sap the ascending sap.
v.t. to destroy by digging underneath: to undermine: to impair the constitution.—v.i. to proceed by undermining:—pr.p. sap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. sapped.—n. a narrow ditch or trench by which approach is made from the foremost parallel towards the glacis or covert-way of a besieged place.—n. Sap′per one who saps.
編輯:凯利
例句/造句/用法:
- Resolved, as your discriminating good sense perceives, that if you was to have a sap--pur--IZE, it should be a complete one! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was then dipped in the sap, or the latter was poured over it, which gave it a thin coating. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- When once I had pressed the frail shoulder, something new--a fresh sap and sense--stole into my frame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Turpentine, for example, is made by distilling the sap of pine trees. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I wanted to give you a delightful sap--pur--IZE! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- After having established themselves in camp the natives take up their monotonous round, which is followed day after day as long as the rubber trees continue to yield their valuable sap. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- An arch of the bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They have banished the tender grace of life and left only the sapped and skinny mockery. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is this life-sapping quality of our politics that should be fought--its wanton waste of the initiatives we have--its stupid indifference. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He saw the need for versatility--for more simplicity in operation--for getting away from arbitrary rules--for release from the sapping mental tax. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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