Wade
[wed]
[weɪd] or [wed]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945).
(verb.) walk (through relatively shallow water); 'Can we wade across the river to the other side?'; 'Wade the pond'.
卡梅拉整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Woad.
(v. i.) To go; to move forward.
(v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
(v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
(v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
(n.) The act of wading.
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解釋/意思:
v.i. to walk through any substance that yields to the feet as water: to pass with difficulty or labour.—n. (coll.) a ford.—n. Wā′der one who wades: a bird that wades e.g the heron: (pl.) high waterproof boots used by fishermen for wading.
校對:帕蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- Let any one try to wade the mud of the Flemish chaussées in a pair of Paris brodequins, on m'en dirait des nouvelles! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Cavalry Corps: LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WADE HAMPTON, Commanding. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I have had Miss Wade before me all this time, as if it was my own self grown ripe--turning everything the wrong way, and twisting all good into evil. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Miss Wade mostly lives abroad, Mr Clennam. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was the man; the man he had followed in company with the girl, and whom he had overheard talking to Miss Wade. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Miss Wade is a clever lady, who has read heaps of books, and can tell you far better and more interesting stories than I know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Every individual waded over, then, and stood upon the further bank. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It must be waded through, however. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Armed with supernatural strength, he waded through the sand, until, exhausted with fatigue and thirst, he fell senseless on the earth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The troops waded the stream, which was up to their necks in the deepest part. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Then, one after the other, they waded out, and went up to the house. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Much more probably it waded half submerged in pursuit of the herbivorous river saurians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But ere the words had passed his lips she was across the snowy road, rather skimming than wading the drifts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Wading birds, which frequent the muddy edges of ponds, if suddenly flushed, would be the most likely to have muddy feet. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- We knew by our wading experience, however, that many streets in America are double as wide as the Jordan. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I had lived near what was called the Jersey market, and saw, with pain, the inhabitants wading in mud while purchasing their provisions. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- A tribe of stalwart Moors are wading into the sea to carry us ashore on their backs from the small boats. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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