| 释义 |
chequered, checkered, ppl. a.|ˈtʃɛkəd|
[f. chequer n. and v. + -ed; answering to OF. eschequeré, eschekeré, in sense 1, esp. in Her.]
1. Marked like a chess-board; hence, having a pattern of various colours in more or less geometrical arrangement.
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. F j, They be calde armys chekkerit when they ar made of ij colouris to the maner of a chekker. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 497 The baner of Britaine wyth the chekered armes. 1654Gayton Fest. Notes 97 He had the better of the whites in this checquer'd board; now have–at the blacks. 1674Lond. Gaz. No. 901/4 Lost..a Green Checkerd Night-Bag. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 230 And checquer'd marble pav'd the hallow'd floors. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 170 Checkered cloths. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles i. xxx, His chequer'd plaid. 1836Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 33.
2. a. Diversified in colour, variegated; marked with alternate light and shade.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier 1 The checkerd (Paunsie) or party coloured Harts ease. 1632Milton L'Allegro, Dancing in the Chequer'd shade. 1704Pope Windsor For. 17 Here waving groves a checquer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude the day. 1730Thomson Autumn 457 And mark his [the stag's] beauteous chequered sides with gore. 1795Southey Joan of Arc vii. 440 Beneath the o'er-arching forests' chequer'd shade.
b. chequered skipper, a species of the skipper butterfly, Cyclopides palæmon.
1839W. Wood Index Entomol. i. 1 Papilio. Butterfly... 9 Paniscus Chequered Skipper. 1879W. F. Kirby Europ. Butterflies 64 Cyclopides..C. Palæmon..(Chequered Skipper). Wings above blackish-brown, with angular tawny spots on the fore-wings, and round ones on the hind⁓wings. 1957E. B. Ford Butterflies (ed. 3) i. 16 At the very end of the [18th] century one more butterfly was added to the British list, the Chequered Skipper, Carterocephalus palaemon.
3. Diversified in character; full of constant alternation (esp. for the worse). Esp. in phr. chequered career.
1656Manasseh ben Israel Vind. Judæorum in Phenix (1708) II. 423 The chequer'd and interwoven Vicissitudes and Turns of things here below. 1711Swift Lett. (1767) III. 239 Our weather, for this fortnight past, is chequered, a fair and a rainy day. 1796–7Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 190 Manœuvres of a corps retiring..must be more or less accomplished by chequered movements: one body by its numbers, or position, facing and protecting the retreat of another. 1808Scott Marm. iii. Introd., Life's chequered scene of joy and sorrow. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xxxviii. 407 Her career, for eighteen centuries, has been a chequered one. 1881H. W. Nesfield (title) A Chequered career, or Fifteen years in Australia and New Zealand. 1887Stevenson Underwoods i. xii. 24 The chequered silence. 1928Melody Maker Feb. 188/3 Jay Whidden and his band has had a chequered career as far as the Radio is concerned. 1967Listener 17 Aug. 203/3 My career with 20th Century Fox was somewhat chequered. |