Wooden
['wʊd(ə)n] or ['wʊdn]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lacking ease or grace; 'the actor's performance was wooden'; 'a wooden smile' .
(adj.) made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; 'a wooden box'; 'an ancient cart with wooden wheels' .
手打:托马斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
(a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
校對:马奇
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Made of wood.[2]. Woody, ligneous.[3]. Awkward, clumsy, ungainly, stiff.
整理:尼古拉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Somebody has nailed this wooden seat in. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I don't,' said Boffin, in a free-handed manner, 'want to tie a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--down too tight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- His wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted expectation of his victim. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There were two wooden settles by the fire, one on either side of it, with a corresponding table before each. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On the table stood a little wooden box, open, and empty. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She swept up the hearth, asked at what time she should prepare tea, and quitted the room with the same wooden face with which she had entered it. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The hollow wooden box re?nforces the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The room opened on a long wooden verandah, with the sea coming in at the windows. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Bradley came to him, sitting on his wooden lever, and asked what o'clock it was? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The wayfarer smoked his pipe out, put it in his breast, slipped off his great wooden shoes, and lay down on his back on the heap of stones. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Again, plac e the magnet in a wooden vessel, and then set the vessel afloat in a tub or cistern of still water. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- By this means a large sheet of paper can be printed off by a single pull, and with more impression and greater sharpness than by two pulls with a wooden press. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- On the 23d Hancock's corps was moved to the wooden bridge which spans the North Anna River just west of where the Fredericksburg Railroad crosses. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- They had been drawn in chalk upon the black wooden door of the tool-house, which stands beside the lawn in full view of the front windows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- George Pullman, who then had a small shop at Detroit and was working on his sleeping-car, made Edison a lot of wooden apparatus for his chemicals, to the boy's delight. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The two ends of the wire were connected with an electro-magnet fastened to a vertical wooden frame. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- These early cannon, bombards, and mortars were mounted on heavy solid wooden frames and moved with great difficulty from place to place. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Here he turned swiftly down a narrow passage, passed through a wooden gate into a deserted yard, and then opened with a key the back door of a house. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Then he produced his wooden cuts, and explained in detail how he had made them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Early in the morning I was out, and looking in, unseen, at one of the wooden windows of the forge. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The enemy was found strongly intrenched on the high ground overlooking the river, and commanding the Wooden Bridge with artillery. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It is built upon its side and when finished resembles a wooden wall about seventy-five feet long four inches high and three inches wide. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Now, you see, Rokesmith,' he went on, 'a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--is liable to jealousy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
整理:尼古拉斯