Wale
[weɪl] or [wel]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.
(noun.) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
(n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
(n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
(n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
(n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
(v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
(v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
校對:梅勒妮
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Ridge (made by stripes on the skin), whelk, stripe, streak, mark of the lash.
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解釋/意思:
n. (Scot.) the choice or pick of anything.—v.t. to choose.
n. a raised streak left by a stripe: a ridge on the surface of cloth: a plank all along the outer timbers on a ship's side.—v.t. to mark with wales.—n. Wā′ler one who chastises severely.
錄入:曼蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- Cos, says Jo with a perplexed stare but without being at all shaken in his certainty, cos that there's the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I am a-looking as hard as ever I can look, says Jo with starting eyes, and that there's the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I know the wale, replies Jo, staring, and the bonnet, and the gownd. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In 1804, at Pen y Darran, South Wales, a third engine was built, which was the first steam locomotive ever to run on rails. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Next I reflected that Frederick Lamb was younger than the Prince; but then again, a Prince of Wales! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- We found the hotel and secured rooms, and were happy to know that the Prince of Wales had stopped there once. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Minerals in Lancashire and Wales. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I gave Magwitch that caution, said Mr. Jaggers, looking hard at me; I wrote it to New South Wales. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In many parts of Scotland and Wales it affords none. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I wonder, thought I, what sort of a nightcap the Prince of Wales wears? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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