cardboard
Word family adjectivecardboardynouncardboardcardboard city
Daily life
card·board1 /ˈkɑːdbɔːd $ ˈkɑːrdbɔːrd/ noun [uncountableU] 
Dstiff thick brown paper, used especially for making boxes 〔尤指可用于制纸箱的〕（硬）纸板，卡纸 a sheet of cardboard
→5 see picture at 见图 box1 一张卡纸
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cardboard• She fed the little slips of cardboard one by one into its grinding jaws.• By night it is lined with ragged figures, sleeping on cardboard or scraps of bubble-wrap.
Daily life
cardboard2 adjectiveadj 1 Dmade from cardboard 硬纸板制的
a cardboard box
硬纸板箱
2 [only before noun]REAL/NOT IMAGINARY seeming silly and not real 显得愚蠢的；不真实的
a romantic novel full of cardboard characters
人物很不真实的爱情小说
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cardboard• In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.• Most of these romantic novels are full of cardboard characters.• He put the papers into a cardboard folder and tied it with a red ribbon.• The cedar lining that once protected fine cigars from deteriorating is equally efficacious at preserving cardboard rectangles from insect damage.• Then there's the furniture, notably the super-curvy bentwood chairs for Knoll and the cardboard stuff for Vitra.• Frank Gauci steps off the Callisto into the coldest winter ever clutching a cardboard suitcase.