词汇 | cobble |
释义 | cobble noun[ Cusually plural ] uk /ˈkɒb.əl/ us /ˈkɑː.bəl/(alsocobblestone, uk /ˈkɒb.əl.stəʊn/ us /ˈkɑː.bəl.stoʊn/) a rounded stone used on the surface of an old-fashioned road: (老式路面用的)鹅卵石 The cart rumbled over the cobbles.大车咕隆隆地碾过鹅卵石。 James O'Neil/The Image Bank/GettyImages Road surfaces & features asphalt asphalting bike lane bitumen black spot cycle track double yellow line dropped kerb fast lane gravel paver paving stone potholed pull someone in ramp tarmac tight turn traffic island unploughed verge Related wordcobbled Examples of cobblecobble The obsidian cobbles are easily detached from their parent rock by water erosion and carried downstream. The obsidian cobbles, however, are found densely clumped together among the layers. One gets the impression of a collection of first draft essays developed over several isolated seasons, suddenly cobbled together by a knowledgeable, eccentric personality. These days many new discs seem cobbled together in a moment, thoughtless effluvia of our age's manic obsession with material production. Their outlines are made of large boulders and their interiors are filled with heat-radiating quartz and quartzite river cobbles. Finally, workshops were organized for them to learn various tasks (brush work, cobbling, printing, woodwork, ironwork, sewing, basketwork, mulching). On the east side of the cobble embankment, a thick bed of black clay indicates that the area was subjected to periods of inundation. The cobbles crack with the sound of falling statues. The substrate was composed mainly of cobbles at the study riffles, although boulders were common in the stream at greater altitudes. All components of the rock, except the obsidian cobbles, are susceptible to weathering and are easily transformed into clay, as the matrix is quite porous. Cobble stair bolstered with cut blocks ascends the southern facade. The most glaring weakness is the careless way in which much of this is cobbled together. The result was that the prime minister could boast of overwhelming mass electoral support but had great difficult cobbling together a working parliamentary coalition. Second, and far more common, was the small mutual improvement society, cobbled together by young men devoted to the corporate model of mutual self-help. Flooring the barrancos are boulder and cobble gravel lags due to the winnowing of finer material. 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. |
随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。