| 单词 | checkered |
| 释义 | checkered (once / 5637 pages) adj The author who sells a million copies of her first book, four of the second, wins a prize for the third and dies at the ceremony has had a checkered career: it's got bright spots and dark ones, like a checkerboard. Checkered is a funny word; it can be used to describe the red and white pattern on a classic tablecloth or the up's and down's of someone's past. You could describe the flag that's waved at a Nascar event as checkered. And if the winning Nascar driver used to work at a car wash, you could say he has had a checkered career. WORD FAMILYchecker: checkered, checkering, checkers+/check: checked, checker, checking, checks, countercheck, uncheckable/checked: unchecked/countercheck: counterchecked, counterchecking, counterchecks USAGE EXAMPLESAdd to that the checkered ethnic makeup of the chorus, and the Japanese setting becomes unobtrusive to the point of invisibility. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) A half-century later, he told an interviewer: “It was one of the proudest things I did in my checkered life.” Washington Post(Dec 11, 2016) “That’s one of the proudest things I’ve done in my checkered life.” New York Times(Dec 11, 2016) 1adj patterned with alternating squares of color Syn checked, chequered patterned having patterns (especially colorful patterns) 2adj marked by changeable fortune a checkered business career Syn changeable, changeful such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change |
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