Sheaf
[ʃiːf] or [ʃif]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sheave.
(n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
(n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
(v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
(v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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解釋/意思:
n. a quantity of things esp. the stalks of grain put together and bound: a bundle of arrows usually 24 in number: any bundle or collection:—pl. Sheaves (shēvz).—v.t. to bind in sheaves.—v.i. to make sheaves.—adj. Sheaf′y.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The young woman turned over a sheaf of counterfoils. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A large sheaf, but I know there's room in your heart for it, Marmee dear, added Meg's tender voice. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I held up one of the sheaf of English papers. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It was a simple mechanism which consisted mainly of two steel fingers that moved back and forth and twisted a wire band around each sheaf of grain. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- When Deering saw the strong steel arms flash a cord around a bundle of grain, tie a knot, cut the cord and fling off the sheaf, he knew he had what the world needed. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He took a sheaf of worn and greasy forms from his pocket. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Fraulein handed the coffee, everybody smoked cigarettes, or else long warden pipes of white clay, of which a sheaf was provided. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The car is connected to wire cables passing over large sheaves at the top of the well room to a counterbalancing bucket. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In this the hoisting cables from which the car is suspended have at the other end a counterweight and pass around driving sheaves in place of a drum. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The next step, and, perhaps the most important one, in the development of the reaper, was in providing automatic devices for binding the gavels of grain into sheaves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It worked perfectly, cutting fifty acres of grain and binding it into sheaves. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves, in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Gorham, who perfected a new twine-binder, and added a device by which all the sheaves bound were turned out in uniform size. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The first step toward a self-binder was the addition of a foot-board at the back of the reaper, on which a man might stand and fasten the grain into sheaves as it fell. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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