| 词汇 | gnarl |
| 释义 | gnarl noun[ C ] uk /nɑːl/ us /nɑːrl/ a rough or twisted lump on a tree or piece of wood: 木节，木瘤 The boy stared at the notches and gnarls in the trunk of the oak.男孩瞪眼看着橡树干上的凹痕和木节。 He brings out the character of each wooden piece by making features of the gnarls and knots. The great age of the trees was almost tangible, the gnarls and knots of these stunted, moss-encrusted forms suggesting any number of gothic fantasies. Although the "wood" has realistic knots, gnarls and woodworm holes, it's made of hardened polyurethane. Because it's been moulded from a piece of oak, it's got all the knots and gnarls of real wood. Rough, irregular and uneven abrasion abrasive abrasiveness arrhythmic bumpy jagged jaggedly jaggy jerky knobbly pockmarked raggedly raggedness raggedy roughness rugged scratchy unsteady wonkiness wonky Examples of gnarlgnarl Here is the woman-as-nature trope gone wrong: the trees are gnarled, the background is a cold, barren wasteland, a metaphor for the subject's own sterility. He has done it because of some irrational quirk of his intellect, some twist or knot or gnarl in his mental structure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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