| 单词 | hulk |
| 释义 | hulk I. 1. < the colossal hulk was the Great Eastern, the forerunner of today's ocean liners — James Dugan > 2. < faced by a hulk of a man, well over six feet tall and professionally broad-shouldered — William Phillips b. 1878 > < towering hulks of two vast apartment houses — Lewis Mumford > < the black hulks of the mountains across the bay — H.T.DeSa > 3. obsolete < her hulk painted over with sparkling vermilion — James Hayward > 4. a. < for a clubhouse the boys used an abandoned hulk they found on the waterfront > b. < the hulks of British tanks rusting in the fields — J.A.Phillips > < once-glittering halls were left empty hulks — Foreign Affairs > < the moribund hulk of the Spanish Empire — J.H.Plumb > c. < a celebrated lock picker … serving time in a prison hulk — Rufus Jarman > — usually used in plural < every prisoner sent to the hulks — Kenneth Roberts > II. intransitive verb 1. dialect England < hulks up from his chair by the hearth — Emmett Gowen > 2. < the smoking port and Vesuvius hulking beyond — William Sansom > < a horned owl coasted into a perch on a dead tree stub, and it hulked there against the sky — Hugh Fosburgh > transitive verb III. dialect |
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