tapestry
外观
英语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]源自中古英語 tapiestre,源自古法語 tapisserie (“绣帷”)。
发音
[编辑]名词
[编辑]tapestry (可數 和 不可數,複數 tapestries)
- 壁毯,挂毯;绣帷
- 1963, Margery Allingham, 章號 3, 出自 The China Governess[1]:
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
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- (引申义) 形形色色的事物;错综复杂的事物
- 2013 January-February, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, 出自 American Scientist[2], 卷 101, 期 1,頁號 59:
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
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动词
[编辑]tapestry (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 tapestries,現在分詞 tapestrying,一般過去時及過去分詞 tapestried)
- (及物,不及物) 用绣帷或绣帷一般的饰品来装饰
- 1854年9月13日, Nathaniel Hawthorne, English Note-Books[4], "Conway Castle":
- The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.
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