| 单词 | chinese box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChinese box Chinese box n. one of a nest of boxes: see nest n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > containing others > one of a nest of boxes Chinese box1829 1829 R. C. Sands Writings (1834) II. 57 Some of the members..thus compacted like Chinese boxes. 1921 V. Woolf Monday or Tuesday 78 Like a vast nest of Chinese boxes..turning ceaselessly one within another the city murmured. 1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. ii. 34 There is no rank scale in lexis: no ‘Chinese box’ arrangement of pattern-carrying units. < as lemmas |
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