| 英语单词 | checkered |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['tʃekəd] 美 ['tʃekəd] |
| 中文释义 | adj.分成方格的;色彩多样的;有大变化的 动词checker的过去式和过去分词. |
| 英语例句 | (1) A checkered career. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 充满波折的经历 |
| vocabulary简明 | The author who sells a million copies of her first book, four of the second, wins a prize for the third and dies at the ceremony has had a checkered career: it's got bright spots and dark ones, like a checkerboard. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Checkered is a funny word; it can be used to describe the red and white pattern on a classic tablecloth or the up's and down's of someone's past. You could describe the flag that's waved at a Nascar event as checkered. And if the winning Nascar driver used to work at a car wash, you could say he has had a checkered career. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 →see: chequered ; |
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