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A tapestry is a big piece of heavy cloth with a picture or pattern woven into it, often hung on a wall like art. People also use 'tapestry' to talk about something made of many different parts mixed together, like 'a rich tapestry of cultures,' meaning many cultures woven together into one interesting whole.
掛毯;(比喻)豐富交織的整體
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tapestrynoun/ˈtæpəstɹi/
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A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
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Anything with variegated or complex details.
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
tapestryverb/ˈtæpəstɹi/
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To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
- We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues […]
- The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。