| 单词 | scroll |
| 释义 | scroll (once / 1333 pages) nv A rolled up piece of paper is a scroll. If you write a poem on a sheet of paper, roll it up, and tie it with a ribbon, you can call it a scroll. Before books existed, people wrote stories or important information on parchment or papyrus and rolled them into scrolls for easy storage and transport. Sometimes, a scroll would serve as a work of art, a decorated tale that would occasionally be unrolled and displayed. These days, when you scroll through something, you're probably reading it on a computer, moving down the screen. WORD FAMILYscroll: scrolled, scrolling, scrolls USAGE EXAMPLESShe scrolled through hundreds of aggressive messages, searching for the one that troubled her the most. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) I scrolled back through the last 12 months of columns, as journalists do this time of year, and thought I’d found mostly reasons for despair. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) As Mohamed guarded a displaced persons camp this week, scrolled through photos of himself in front of sandbags on the front lines southeast of Mosul. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper roll Dead Sea scrolls (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s Megillah (Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim Torah(Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written; is used in a synagogue during services holograph, manuscript handwritten book or document 2n a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) Syn|Hypo|Hyper coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl corolla (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth calyx(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green verticila whorl of leaves growing around a stem hullpersistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry pappuscalyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions round shape a shape that is curved and without sharp angles 3v move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen Scroll down to see the entire text Hyper move go or proceed from one point to another |
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