單詞
deadwood
英 ['dedw?d]
美['d?d,w?d]
基本信息
- n. 枯枝；朽木；碎屑
- n. (Deadwood)人名；(英)戴德伍德
英文詞源
- deadwood (n.)
- 1887 in figurative sense of "useless person or thing," originally American English, from dead (adj.) + wood (n.). Dead wood in a forest is useful as firewood; perhaps the reference here is to the dried up parts of plants grown for commercial production of flowers or fruit.
雙語例句
- 1. At last I had the deadwood on the Red Pony.
- 最后我終于制服了那匹紅馬駒.
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- 2. The Methods: Used have helped enormously in cutting out deadwood.
- 這些方法在廢物利用方面起了相當(dāng)大的作用.
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- 3. The remainder are standing deadwood, still valuable to the forest because of the life they support.
- 其余下的是直立的朽木, 對森林來說仍然很重要,是因?yàn)樗鼈兡芫S持其它樹木的生命.
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- 4. What a shock! I thought you might have been killed by Captain Deadwood.
- 真的嚇了跳. 我還以為你已經(jīng)被朽木隊(duì)長殺死了.
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- 5. They have the deadwood on you now, for they know you took that girl into your room.
- 他們現(xiàn)在抓住了你的把柄了, 因?yàn)樗麄冎滥銕莻€(gè)女孩到你房間里去了.
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