Wicker
['wɪkə] or ['wɪkɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches).
(noun.) slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork.
阿奇校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
(n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
(n.) Same as 1st Wike.
(a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
哈利整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Twig, osier, withe.
丹尼尔編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a small pliant twig or osier: wickerwork.—adj. made of twigs or osiers.—adj. Wick′ered made of wicker: covered with wickerwork.—n. Wick′erwork basketwork of any kind.
編輯:沃伦
例句/造句/用法:
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Without her market-basket, which is a sort of wicker well with two flapping lids, she never stirs abroad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mr. Winkle seized the wicker bottle which his friend proffered, and took a lengthened pull at the exhilarating liquid. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Gabriel paused, in some alarm, in the act of raising the wicker bottle to his lips, and looked round. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A kindred sort of vessel grew up by the use of skins and hides expanded upon a wicker framework. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To this day cow-hide wicker boats (coracles) are used upon the west coast of Ireland, where there is plenty of cattle and a poverty of big trees. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The chairs and the tables were of wicker. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Piani was taking the wooden cork out of a big wicker-covered wine jug. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The lantern, the spade, and the wicker bottle were found, that day, in the churchyard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The older man sat in that wicker chair; it was he who used the cigar-holder. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
尤因整理