单词	engrave
释义	engraveen‧grave /ɪnˈɡreɪv/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINengrave Origin: 1500-1600 grave ‘to cut’ (11-21 centuries), from Old English grafan Verb Table VERB TABLE engrave Simple Form Present I, you, we, they engrave he, she, it engraves Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they engraved Present perfect I, you, we, they have engraved he, she, it has engraved Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had engraved Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will engrave Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have engraved Continuous Form Present I am engraving he, she, it is engraving you, we, they are engraving Past I, he, she, it was engraving you, we, they were engraving Present perfect I, you, we, they have been engraving he, she, it has been engraving Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been engraving Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be engraving Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been engraving Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A heavy block of lead backing the engraved logo of a column I wrote regularly, decades ago at another newspaper. It's an address engraved in my brain. It had no numbers engraved upon it, only bare lines. The 50 names are engraved on three granite tablets. The heavy pressure of the pen made each line appear engraved. The words could be engraved over the entrance to the Pentagon today. When engraving was developed or etching was developed, engraving sort of, a lot of people lost interest in engraving. Wood engraving is an old process: Many newspaper and magazine illustrations from the previous century were reproduced through the process. word sets WORD SETS► Design cross-hatching, nouncutaway, adjectivedesigner, noundrawing board, nounemblem, nounengrave, verbengraving, nounetch, verbetching, nounflowery, adjectivefluted, adjectiveherringbone, nounincise, verbinlaid, adjectivepaisley, nounpatterned, adjectiveplot, nounreticulated, adjectiveschema, nounscroll, nounsection, nounstyle, verbswirl, nountracing, nountracing paper, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► heart · The date was engraved on his heart. ► name · You can have your cork engraved with names and dates.· They engraved her name in gold and wrote on the plaque that she was the daughter of a king. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart The date was engraved on his heart. 1to cut words or designs on metal, wood, glass etcengrave something on something Their names are engraved on a stone tablet.engrave something with something a pendant engraved with a simple design2be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart literary to be impossible to forget—engraver noun [countable]
随便看	prefect prefecture prefer preferable preferably preference preferential preferentially preferment prefigure prefix pregaming pregnancy pregnant preheat prehensile preheritance prehistoric prehistory prejudge prejudgment prejudice prejudiced prejudicial prelate

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