| 释义 |
vane/vein/n. 1a = WEATHERVANE b an inconstant person or thing 多变的人或事 2 a blade of a screw propeller or a windmill etc. (指螺旋桨、风车等的)翼；叶片；轮叶 3 the sight of surveying instruments, a quadrant, etc. (指测量仪器、四分仪等的)视准器，觇板 4 the flat part of a bird's feather formed by the barbs 羽片 □ vaned adj.[Middle English, southern & western variant of obsolete fane from Old English fana ‘banner’, from Germanic] |