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Woodwork usually means one of two things. First, it's the wooden parts of a house or room — the doors, window frames, — 'the woodwork needs painting' means those wooden parts need fresh paint. Second, it's the skill or hobby of making things out of wood, like furniture — 'he does woodwork on weekends.' There's also a fun idiom: 'come out of the woodwork' means people suddenly appear, out of nowhere, often when there's money or attention involved — like relatives you never knew about showing up after someone wins the lottery.
(房屋的)木製部分;木工手藝;(片語)come out of the woodwork=突然冒出來
組成wood + work — work done with wood, or the wooden parts that 'work' as part of a building.
同家族的字
- woodworkera person who does woodwork
原始詞典資料5 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。
woodworknoun/ˈwʊdˌwɜːk/
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Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
- Some woodwork and the plaster ceiling medallions have been duplicated to match the originals.
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Working with wood.
- He does woodwork as a hobby.
- The unthinking man assumes that if woodwork is to be taught, the best person to do it must be a carpenter
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A place of concealment or obscurity.
- out of the woodwork
- Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.
- That goal was so close, it went in off the woodwork.
- Carroll thought he had equalised with his header against the bar with eight minutes left. Liverpool claimed the ball had cross the line and Chelsea were grateful for a miraculous intervention from Cech to turn his effort on to the woodwork.
woodworkverb/ˈwʊdˌwɜːk/
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datedTo go completely stealth as a transgender person. (From the idea of fading or blending into the woodwork.)
- "Instead of 'woodworking,' or disappearing into the mainstream — as we are capable of and qualified to do — we have chosen not to do so." Outside of the transsexual community, other changes were taking place that made it possible for[…]
- Maybe — and this was essential for political activism — you didn't have to "woodwork" but could be transgendered for all to see. By the mid '90s the Internet had arrived — and spread these new ideas like wildfire.[…]
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。