| 单词 | cobble |
| 释义 | cobble noun[Cusually plural] uk/ˈkɒb.əl/us/ˈkɑː.bəl/(alsocobblestone,uk/ˈkɒb.əl.stəʊn/us/ˈkɑː.bəl.stoʊn/)aroundedstoneused on thesurfaceof anold-fashionedroad: （老式路面用的）鹅卵石Thecartrumbledover the cobbles.大车咕隆隆地碾过鹅卵石。  James O'Neil/The Image Bank/GettyImages Road surfaces & features
Examplesofcobblecobble The obsidian cobbles are easily detached from their parent rock by water erosion and carried downstream. From theCambridge English Corpus The obsidian cobbles, however, are found densely clumped together among the layers. From theCambridge English Corpus One gets the impression of a collection of first draft essays developed over several isolated seasons, suddenly cobbled together by a knowledgeable, eccentric personality. From theCambridge English Corpus These days many new discs seem cobbled together in a moment, thoughtless effluvia of our age's manic obsession with material production. From theCambridge English Corpus Their outlines are made of large boulders and their interiors are filled with heat-radiating quartz and quartzite river cobbles. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, workshops were organized for them to learn various tasks (brush work, cobbling, printing, woodwork, ironwork, sewing, basketwork, mulching). From theCambridge English Corpus On the east side of thecobbleembankment, a thick bed of black clay indicates that the area was subjected to periods of inundation. From theCambridge English Corpus The cobbles crack with the sound of falling statues. From theCambridge English Corpus The substrate was composed mainly of cobbles at the study riffles, although boulders were common in the stream at greater altitudes. From theCambridge English Corpus All components of the rock, except the obsidian cobbles, are susceptible to weathering and are easily transformed into clay, as the matrix is quite porous. From theCambridge English Corpus Cobblestair bolstered with cut blocks ascends the southern facade. From theCambridge English Corpus The most glaring weakness is the careless way in which much of this is cobbled together. From theCambridge English Corpus The result was that the prime minister could boast of overwhelming mass electoral support but had great difficult cobbling together a working parliamentary coalition. From theCambridge English Corpus Second, and far more common, was the small mutual improvement society, cobbled together by young men devoted to the corporate model of mutual self-help. From theCambridge English Corpus Flooring the barrancos are boulder andcobblegravel lags due to the winnowing of finer material. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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