单词 | cardboard |
释义 | cardboard (kɑːʳdbɔːʳd ) uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun] B2 Cardboard is thick, stiff paper that is used, for example, to make boxes and models. ...a cardboard box. ...a life-size cardboard cut-out of a police officer. Collocations: cardboard carton The cardboard carton costs more than the corn inside. The Sun We spend a lot of time arguing about whether plastic and cardboard cartons are different products. Times, Sunday Times The kitchen contained cardboard cartons of tomato paste, cooking oil, instant meals and tea. Times, Sunday Times A new 'green' company has launched the drink in milk-style cardboard cartons. The Sun With time, due to the steadily increasing cost of collecting, transporting, storing and cleaning glass bottles, they were replaced by cardboard cartons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Five pounds for a small, prettily embossed cardboard cup of the stuff, you say? Times, Sunday Times He said his secretary would bring him drinks disguised in a cardboard cup. Times, Sunday Times Hopefully, one who charges him 2.50 per cup of tea in a cardboard cup. Times, Sunday Times But for a curious animal, urban areas are also an irresistible mess of life-threatening hazards and objects to get wedged in: strawberry netting, football goals, elastic bands, cardboard cups. Times, Sunday Times He said he might as well have a cardboard cut-out with him and that I had a face like thunder. The Sun (2009) This one is a cardboard cut-out. The Sun (2011) If they could afford massive new transformer-generators like this supersize it was no cardboard cut-out job. THE TARTAN RINGERS Either their folks couldn't bear living with such cardboard cutout personalities and skipped town without telling them ... or there has been an invasion. The Sun While they think they are booing a cardboard cutout, they are merciless. Christianity Today Imagine you are at an event where, instead of a name card at their table setting, each guest has a cardboard cutout of their house. Times, Sunday Times He has done this by living a life of a million evasions, until you'd swear that he had turned into a cardboard cutout of himself. Times, Sunday Times He was like a cardboard cutout of a person. Times, Sunday Times The group, one of the world's biggest makers of paper and cardboard packaging, posted a 1 per cent drop in second quarter core profit. Times, Sunday Times The credit crunch has caused a collapse in demand for the paper - used to make cardboard packaging. The Sun The spokesman said that a few baked beans left in a tin could dribble on to cardboard packaging and cause it to be refused for recycling. Times, Sunday Times And then there's plastic shrink-wrapping, cardboard packaging — the list goes on. Times, Sunday Times She persuaded shops to donate cardboard packaging on which she painted, and found a café willing to exhibit her art. Times, Sunday Times I took it out of the packaging and just under the collar there was a cardboard sleeve. The Sun The other 400 picture sleeves were simply a green tinted photocopy of the original cardboard sleeve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Both 7 s were housed in a folder cardboard sleeve in a plastic bag. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The discs are contained in two single-size double-disc jewel cases in a cardboard sleeve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The album was released in two editions, a regular edition and a limited edition with cardboard sleeve and hardcover photobook. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I paid for my bargain and left with it in a cardboard tube. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Each of you pick up a cardboard tube and practise swinging it around. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The cardboard tube had been placed between two tins of paint stacked beside her bath. The Sun (2006) Her grandmother was fanning her with a piece of cardboard. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He holds up a ripped piece of cardboard, the escutcheon of his stockless trade. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Cut out a piece of cardboard or plastic to fit the inside of the mould and lay it directly on top of the octopus. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Without opposable thumbs, I have no hope of managing such a tiny piece of cardboard. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST (1995) They'd made a hill by packing the snow on one of the stoops and were sledding down the makeshift mountain on a piece of cardboard. ROUGH JUSTICE (2005) Turns out the only truly green ones are made of recycled cardboard. Times, Sunday Times You can insulate your loft with bits of old denim, your walls with recycled cardboard and soundproof your floor with old car tyres. Times, Sunday Times The company vowed to 'deliver sandwiches on recycled cardboard trays rather than plastic trays'. The Sun The 600 caskets are made from pure new wool and supported on a recycled cardboard frame. The Sun Made from recycled cardboard, the foldable shelter with a perch can be recycled again (7). Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 纸板 Japanese: ボール紙 |
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