单词 | shatter |
释义 | shat·ter I. transitive verb 1. < with a measured tap of his forefinger he shattered the ash from his cigar — Hamilton Basso > < the slightest jar shatters the petals of a full-blown rose > < wind could shatter out wheat — A.B.Guthrie > 2. a. < fifty windowpanes were shattered by the missiles — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < amethysts caught the light, shattering it and sending it forth again in a thousand fragments — Louis Bromfield > b. < men whose faces had been shattered on the Italian fronts — James Stern > < rough weather … shattered the mainmast — C.O.Paullin > 3. a. < riflemen … shattered each wave of attackers before it could come within volleying distance — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < one cold puff of piety … shattered the warm colorful world of romance — Osbert Lancaster > < the legend of Rome's invincibility had been shattered — John Buchan > b. < his health was shattered … by the war — V.H.Paltsits > < people collide with harsh experience and are shattered — Paul Engle > < nothing but death was strong enough to shatter that inherited restraint — Ellen Glasgow > 4. < her wrist corsage was of shattered yellow carnations — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News > intransitive verb 1. < rain … shatters at the windowpane — Maurice Hewlett > 2. < turned back … to see the laboratory window shatter — W.N.Marsh > < the Empire of the Incas … shattered at Pizarro's touch — Bernard De Voto > 3. < the wheat shattered in the field before harvest > Synonyms: see break II. 1. < the plate was in shatters on the floor > 2. < studies on the shatter of grapes — L.P.Miller > 3. < sunlight broke … painfully in his eyes like a shatter of gold glass — David Beaty > |
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