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Gnarled Adj Gnarl Nɑ:Ld A.(树木)多节的;粗糙的 英 树木)多节的(Knotty Twisted);粗糙的(Roughened

单词 gnarled
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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