| 单词 | hatch |
| 释义 | hatch I. 1. a. obsolete < in at the window or else o'er the hatch — Shakespeare > b. < equipped with an escape hatch for use in case of fire — W.H.Goodenough > < shop through a hatch in the wall — Time > < snatched up two plates of cold tongue … from the serving-room hatch — Margaret Kennedy > 2. a. obsolete (1) (2) < upon the giddy footing of the hatches — Shakespeare > b. < smoke rose through the same hatch where … men could climb to the cannon deck — J.H.Cutler > < the inspector lifts the hatch in the top of the oil storage tank > specifically < one of the .50-caliber guns can be … fired from inside without opening the turret hatch — Military Review > c. d. < her hatches were enlarged and her lumber-carrying career … resumed — H.G.Peterson > < device … the airman is placing in its release hatch — New York Times Magazine > 3. a. b. c. II. now dialect England III. intransitive verb 1. < the hen hatched today > 2. a. < watched the chickens hatch > < begins to hatch from the chrysalis in early July — E.B.Ford > — often used with off or out b. < the eggs hatched today > 3. < the old hen is hatching > transitive verb 1. archaic < what monsters now doth nature hatch — Mirour for Magistrates > < serving as a nursery bed to hatch … the infant plant — William Bartram > 2. a. < a duck … which hatched chickens — Margaret Deland > b. < an incubator can hatch more eggs at a time than a hen > < turtle eggs are hatched by the sun > 3. < hatching a program of economic aid — E.K.Lindley > < they repair to the little summer place to garden and smoke pipes, they hatch books, they go fishing — George Spelvin > especially < hatch a conspiracy > — often used with up < when was all this hatched up — Ann Bridge > IV. 1. a. < congregate in family groups soon after the hatch — W.W.Haines > b. < trout were rising freely to a hatch of small gray flies — F.C.Craighead b. 1916 & J.J.Craighead > 2. < the entire hatch in an incubator — J.E.Shillinger & L.C.Morley > V. 1. 2. VI. |
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