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词汇 riveted
释义 riveted
past simple and past participle ofrivet
rivet
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈrɪv.ɪt/ us /ˈrɪv.ɪt/
to fasten parts together with a rivet: 铆,铆接
Many parts of an aircraft are riveted together.飞机很多部件都是铆接在一起的。
 be riveted
to not be able to stop looking at something because it is so interesting or frightening: (因感到有趣而)目不转睛地看;(因害怕而)动弹不得,呆若木鸡
It was an amazing film - I was absolutely riveted.那部电影太精彩了——我完全被吸引住了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fastening and tying
anchor
bale
be locked togetheridiom
belay
bind
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half hitch
harness
hobble
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knotted
stake
strap someone in
strap something up
strop
tack
tape something up
tether

Examples of riveted


riveted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Most of the vessels were built from welded steel, not riveted, and were equipped with powerful diesel engines.
Additional lawyers cited statutes and precedents in opposition and it was the larger constitutional issue that riveted their attention.
This, combined with an ethical distaste for genetics, fortified a science of development that riveted its attention on the social environment.
To hear a song again is not only to hear structure but that structure as totally fixed and riveted to larger auditory scaffolding.
Thus, these events become memorable, that is, available for recollection or riveted to consciousness, by being stitched together with music.
It particularly riveted me because it was clearly directed at me.
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The sound and other technicians were listening, riveted, to that broadcast.
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The specification admits of welded or of riveted construction, or a combination of both, to suit the capacity of individual manufacturers.
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The enormous size of the ship and the terrible extent of the loss of life no doubt riveted public attention.
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It is now the habit to weld ships, whereas in 1930 they were very largely riveted.
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Our eyes have in the past been riveted and are today being riveted on the£rather than on production and techniques of production.
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The surveyor ordered a doubling plate to be riveted over the hole in the hull, and the ship was allowed to go to sea.
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I know very well the difficulty of retrospective legislation, but surely it could be riveted to the question of motive.
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Otherwise, this ten years is riveted on the industry.
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All eyes have been riveted on the number of options to the exclusion of what the project was all about.
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