tuft
英 [tʌft]
美[tʌft]
- n. 一簇；丛生植物；一丛
- vt. 用丛毛装饰
- vi. 丛生
- n. (Tuft)人名；(英)塔夫特
词态变化
复数: tufts;
助记提示
1. 谐音“她缚头”-----她把头发捆缚起来。
2. top => tuft.
3. Latin tuber "lump" => tuft.
2. top => tuft.
3. Latin tuber "lump" => tuft.
英英释意
- 1. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- 2. a bunch of feathers or hair
英文词源
- tuft
- tuft: see toff
- tuft (n.)
- "bunch of soft and flexible things fixed at the base with the upper ends loose," late 14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French touffe "tuft of hair" (14c.), which is either from Late Latin tufa "a kind of crest on a helmet" (also found in Late Greek toupha), or from a Germanic source (compare Old High German zopf, Old Norse toppr "tuft, summit;" see top (n.1)). As a verb from 1530s. Related: Tufted.
考试真题
- And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.
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实用场景例句
- He had a small tuft of hair on his chin.
- 他下巴上有一小撮胡须。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- …tufts of wool torn from sheep by bushes and brambles.
- 被矮丛林与荆棘粘下来的簇簇羊毛
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a river.
- 他可以到小河边去采摘一簇丁香花.
辞典例句
- We saw a rabbit on a tuft of grass.
- 我们看见在一簇草中有一只兔子.
辞典例句
- This synthetic tuft carpet is made by hand.
- 这条裁绒地毯是手工制作的.
期刊摘选
- The bird has a tuft of feathers on top of its head.
- 这鸟头顶上有一簇羽毛.
期刊摘选
- A tuft of grass atop the wall sways right and left in the wind.
- 墙上一棵草,风吹两边倒.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The bird has a tuft of red feathers on top of its head.
- 这只鸟的头顶上有一小簇红色的羽毛.
期刊摘选
- A lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel.
- 一个孤单的渔夫站在碎石丛中.
期刊摘选
- Zhang Liao ducked, and arrow pierced his helmet, shooting away its ornamental tuft.
- 张辽低头急躲, 一箭射中头盔, 将簪缨射去.
期刊摘选
- This stage produced a tuft of barbs fused to the hollow cylinder, or calamus.
- 在这一阶段,有一簇羽枝会与中空圆柱融合在一起, 形成翮(即羽根).
期刊摘选
- A tuft of hair on such a projection.
- 此突起部分的一丛毛.
期刊摘选
- A tuft of hair or feathers.
- 丛簇一绺头发或一''.'撮'. ''羽毛.
期刊摘选
- Fear ambush at every tree and tuft of grass.
- 风声鹤唳,草木皆兵.
《简明英汉词典》
- A crown is the tuft of leaves at the top of the pineapple, you dork.
- “王冠就是菠萝顶部的一簇叶子, 小傻子. ”
期刊摘选
- He plucked at Winston's head and brought away a tuft of hair.
- 他一揪温斯顿的头发,就掉下一把来.
英汉文学
- She sat down on a tuft of grass.
- 她坐在一小块草地上.
期刊摘选
- He had a small tuft of hair on his chin.
- 他下巴上有一小撮胡须。
柯林斯例句