单词 | gnarled |
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音标 | [nɑ:ld] |
解释 | a.(树木)多节的;粗糙的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj. (树木)多节的(knotty and twisted);粗糙的(roughened, hardened) 【记】 来自 gnarl(木节) 【例】 a gnarled cypress(多节的柏树) |
字源 | gnarled (adj.) the source of the group of words that includes gnarl (v.), gnarl (n.), gnarly is Shakespeare's use of gnarled in 1603: Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable and gnarled Oke. ["Measure for Measure," II.ii.116] OED and Barnhart call it a variant of knurled, from Middle English knar "knot in wood" (late 14c.), originally "a rock, a stone;" of uncertain origin. "(Gnarled) occurs in one passage of Shakes. (for which the sole authority is the folio of 1623), whence it came into general use in the nineteenth century" [OED]. |
不择手段背单词 | adj. (树木)多节的; 脾气坏的, 易怒的 = crabbed; (因为饱经风霜、年老或劳累而)粗糙的 = roughened = hardened 【记】来自knar(n 木节: 树上或木头中的结或树瘤)源于knot(n 绳等的结; 树的节v 打结) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】近于knot,a protruding knot on a tree. 动词等于snarl 【相关】snarl (音:丝挠) 缠结, 混乱,咆哮, 怒骂 |
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