| 单词 | silk |
| 释义 | Related topics: Material & textiles, Crime & lawsilk /sɪlk/ ●●○ noun 1 [uncountable]TIM a thin smooth soft cloth made from very thin thread which is produced by a silkworm 丝绸 pure silk stockings 纯丝长筒袜 a beautiful dress in raw silk 生丝面料的漂亮连衣裙 →4 See picture of 见图 MATERIAL 12 [countable] British English lawSC a very important lawyer 王室法律顾问，御用大律师 SYN Queen’s Counsel (QC) His practice quickly grew and he took silk (=became a QC) in 1988. 他的业务迅速扩大，1988年他成为了王室法律顾问。3. silks [plural] technical the coloured shirts worn by jockeys (=people who ride horses in races) 〔骑师在赛马时穿的〕彩色丝绸赛马服4. make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear to make something good out of something that is bad quality 化腐朽为神奇，以劣材制精品Examples from the Corpussilk• a silk blouse• Apart from their engineering expertise, they were as dissimilar as steel and silk.• The Madonna presided over it all, high and serene above the altar, dressed in pale-blue silk embellished with golden embroidery.• The material seemed to her to be a thick heavy silk.• One was Pierre Poivre, the son of a prominent Lyons silk tycoon.• She refrained from plopping any sort of silk flora or abstract sculpture atop her well-coiffed head.• Jack was wide awake, in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe.• She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.• Diagonal striped silk tie, £49, Alfred Dunhill.raw silk• His eyes were big and blue, and his hair like raw silk surrounded by a wreath of fire...• They darted about on the front of the group, their silver-leaf hair rustling like raw silk.• Her frame was small, her arms looked frail and very white against the raw silk.• A refining process ensures that the fibres of the raw silk filling are always non-allergic.Origin silk Old English seolcsilk nounChinese cloth smooth very from soft Corpus thin a made thin |
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