| 单词 | cobble |
| 释义 | cobbleWord family nouncobblercobblerycobblingcobble Roads cob·ble1 /ˈkɒbəl $ ˈkɑː-/ verb [transitiveT] old-fashioned 1. DCBOto repair or make shoes 修补〔鞋〕；制作〔鞋〕 2. TTRto put cobblestones on a street 用鹅卵石铺〔路〕 3 cobble something ↔ together phrasal verbphr v old-fashioned MAKEto quickly produce or make something that is useful but not perfect 〔匆忙而草率地〕拼凑 The diplomats cobbled an agreement together. 外交官们草草拟了一份协议。 She cobbled together a tent from a few pieces of string and a sheet. 她用几根绳子和一条床单仓促地搭了一个帐篷。 Examples from the Corpus cobble together• They cobble workings together from whatever they can scrape up.• She watched as the jagged tears in the sky mended, cobbling themselves together in a uniform grey. Examples from the Corpus cobble• Gramm had hoped to cobble a winning coalition of social and economic conservatives.• It is not that difficult to cobble together a budget that could at least appear to be balanced within five years.• Whitehall mandarins have discreetly voiced hopes that the party leaders will cobble together an agreement rather than face a second election.• In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible.• Humble houses were cobbled together from leavings stuccoed over and painted in pastel tones of pink, ochre and yellow.• In Bloomington, Ill., police use a variety of gang definitions, cobbled together from various state and local edicts. Roads cobble2 noun [countableC] 1.TTRa cobblestone 鹅卵石，圆石 Examples from the Corpus cobble• Each of us spotted a different line of cobbles extending across the plain, perpendicular to the prevailing gradient of slope.• Lyn walked across the cobbles and over the Old Town bridge.• A few hens pecked between the cobbles and rabbits scuffled in hutches along one of the dry-stone walls.• Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad's boots on the cobbles.• To his left Corbett heard a slithering on the cobbles.• Once he stumbled on the cobbles.• Quietly they huddled together on the cobbles of the drive.• Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard. 1. (1400-1500) COBBLER2 2. (1800-1900) → COBBLE2 cobble2 (1600-1700) cobblestone |
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