Timber
['tɪmbə] or ['tɪmbɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.
(v. t.) To surmount as a timber does.
(n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
(n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
(n.) Fig.: Material for any structure.
(n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
(n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.
(n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
(v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
(v. i.) To light on a tree.
(v. i.) To make a nest.
校對:蒂米
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Wood (for building).[2]. Beam, stick, squared timber.[3]. Rib (of a ship's frame).[4]. [Western, U. S.] Woods, forest.
編輯:莎蒂
解釋/意思:
n. wood for building purposes: the trunk of a tree: material for any structure: one of the larger pieces of the framework of a house ship &c.: one of the planks forming the sides and roof of a gallery in a mine.—v.t. to furnish with timber or beams.—p.adj. Tim′bered furnished with timber: (Shak.) built formed contrived: (Spens.) made like timber massive.—ns. Tim′bering timber materials; Tim′ber-man one responsible for the timbers in a mine; Tim′ber-toes a person with a wooden leg; Tim′ber-tree a tree suitable for timber; Tim′ber-yard a yard or place where timber is stored.
埃利奥特錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see timber in your dreams, is an augury of prosperous times and peaceful surroundings. If the timber appears dead, there are great disappointments for you. See Forest.
乔整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I perceive, sir, said Pitt with a heightened voice, that your people will cut down the timber. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They picket them here to feed at night and keep them out of sight in the timber in the daytime, he thought. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Pilar was climbing the bank into the timber carrying three rifles. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In the new town of Edinburgh, built within these few years, there is not, perhaps, a single stick of Scotch timber. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is across this open country, down into the next valley and above the timber at the head of the stream. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They had come through the heavy timber to the cup-shaped upper end of the little valley and he saw where the camp must be under the rim-rock that rose ahead of them through the trees. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Bring them bits of timber, Barney. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- His press consisted of two upright timbers held together by cross pieces at top and bottom. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Gerald was as if left on board of a ship that was going asunder beneath his feet, he was in charge of a vessel whose timbers were all coming apart. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This was an arrangement of timbers crossing the ribs on the inside of the ship at angles of about 45°, and braced by diagonals and struts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- She soon went to pieces; I was shewn where she had been, and saw her disjoined timbers tossed on the waves. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The flat bed on which the types rested was held up by other cross timbers, while through another passed a wooden screw, by the aid of which the wooden platen was forced down upon the types. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The country about was generally heavily timbered, but with occasional clearings. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- North of the Yazoo was all a marsh, heavily timbered, cut up with bayous, and much overflowed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The region is heavily timbered, and the roads narrow, and very bad after the least rain. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:莎娜