| 单词 | rough-hewing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈrough-hewing ˈrough-hewing n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > shaping by or as by cutting > roughly rough-hewing1587 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1272/1 If things be not in perfection vpon this first rough hewing. a1640 W. Fenner Christs Alarm (1646) 158 Beloved our times are knotty times. Rough hewing is needful. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 10 Ferrier..had in rough-hewing made the Figure of Andromeda a little too short. 1896 Queen's Q. (Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont.) Apr. 279 The rough-hewing is not the same as the finishing process. 1989 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 21 May 23 I had to do all the work myself, without any helper to tackle the rough-hewing. 2003 M. Montgomery John Crowe Ransom & Allen Tate i. 22 With the growing effects of empiricism..the rough-hewing begins to appear more and more a fine tuning of nature (human and other). < as lemmas |
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