Truncate
[trʌŋ'keɪt;'trʌŋ-] or [trʌŋ'ket]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make shorter as if by cutting off; 'truncate a word'; 'Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains'.
(verb.) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; 'truncate a series'.
(verb.) replace a corner by a plane.
(adj.) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; 'a truncate leaf'; 'truncated volcanic mountains'; 'a truncated pyramid' .
整理:理查德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cut off; to lop; to maim.
(a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
芭比整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Lop, maim, lop off, cut off.
校對:马里恩
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cut off: to lop: to maim.—adjs. Trunc′ate -d appearing as if cut off at the tip: ending in a transverse line.—adv. Trun′cately.—n. Truncā′tion.—Truncated cone pyramid a cone pyramid having the vertex cut off by a line parallel to the base.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Diving bells have been made of various forms, more especially in that of a bell or hollow truncated cone, with the smaller end closed, and the larger one, which is placed lowermost, open. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The meanest streets are strewed with truncated columns, broken capitals--Corinthian and Ionic, and sparkling fragments of granite or porphyry. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- As we neared the dark, truncated cone the vessel's speed was diminished until we barely moved. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Our only clue lay in the truncated telegram, and with a copy of this in his hand Holmes set forth to find a second link for his chain. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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