Unfold
[ʌn'fəʊld] or [ʌn'fold]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) spread out or open from a closed or folded state; 'open the map'; 'spread your arms'.
(verb.) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; 'Unfold the newspaper'; 'stretch out that piece of cloth'; 'extend the TV antenna'.
(verb.) open to the view; 'A walk through town will unfold many interesting buildings'.
手打:奥斯伯特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
(v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.
(v. t.) To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.
(v. i.) To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed.
編輯:丽诺尔
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Expand, open, unroll.[2]. Reveal, disclose, declare, divulge, tell, interpret, disentangle, resolve, decipher, unravel, unriddle, explain, illustrate, make known, set forth, make clear.
黛博拉編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Unravel, disclose, unbosom, divulge, display, spread_out, expand, reveal,develop, explain, declare,[See QUALIFICATION]
編輯:玛杰里
解釋/意思:
v.t. to open the folds of: to release from a fold: to spread out: to tell.—v.i. to spread open expand develop.—ns. Unfold′er; Unfold′ing; Unfold′ment.
錄入:维维恩
例句/造句/用法:
- Now, unfold it and tell me what it is. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Accident has made him the starting-point of the strange family story which it is the purpose of these pages to unfold. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Goethe had the power to call up at will the form of a flower, to make it change from one color to another and to unfold before his mind's eye. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He saw it and secured it quickly, but as he went back to his inn he had no eagerness to unfold the paper. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He unfolded a paper and laid it upon the table. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- This tale, therefore, shall be rapidly unfolded. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,' said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He unfolded the rough chart, which I here reproduce, GRAPHIC and he laid it across Holmes's knee. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It's wrote on gilt-edged paper,' said Sam, as he unfolded it, 'and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door key. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Then he unfolded his arms, and held her encircled in one for an instant: 'You do well! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Life at any stage short of attainment of this goal is merely an unfolding toward it. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He sends--I really beg your pardon--he sends, says Sir Leicester, selecting the letter and unfolding it, a message to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The risk would remain even with close knowledge of Lydgate's character; for character too is a process and an unfolding. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The teaching of history, as we are unfolding it in this book, is strictly in accordance with this teaching of Buddha. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The control is from behind, from the past, instead of, as in the unfolding conception, in the ultimate goal. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Come, Peggy, said Jo, unfolding herself like an animated puzzle. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Development is conceived not as continuous growing, but as the unfolding of latent powers toward a definite goal. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In the new world of invention mind has breathed into matter, and a new and expanding creation unfolds itself. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Mortimer stares at him, and unfolds the paper. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For Jove unfolds the hospitable door, 'Tis Jove that sends the strangers and the poor. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Perhaps we can raise it again and follow the hints it unfolds. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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