| 单词 | discard |
| 释义 | dis·card I. transitive verb 1. a. b. 2. < a butterfly who has discarded his chrysalis — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < on reaching Vancouver he had … discarded his lightweight suits — V.G.Heiser > < the painful process of discarding cherished illusions — Laurence Binyon > intransitive verb Synonyms: < he sorted and re-sorted his cargo, always finding a more necessary article for which a less necessary had to be discarded — Willa Cather > < the song appeared in a draft of the play's first act, and was later discarded from the revised versions — H.V.Gregory > < modern research, which discards obsolete hypotheses — W.R.Inge > shed, slough, cast, and molt may all suggest an animal's discarding an old skin or integument. shed suggests divesting oneself or letting go of something outworn, rough or callow, or burdensome < some words shedding old meanings and acquiring new ones — Times Literary Supplement > < as he mellowed, he shed such vulgarity — Times Literary Supplement > < though statesmen may try to shed their responsibility — J.A.Hobson > slough suggests the throwing off of the deleterious, objectionable, or disadvantageous < in the face of death Sonya seemed transformed, sloughing off all earthly dross — E.J.Simmons > < as though her gaunt and worldly air had been only a mockery she began to slough it off — Louis Bromfield > cast may be more forceful in its suggestion and imply rejection and repudiation < an Englishman like the Ethiopian cannot change his skin any more than a leopard can cast off his spots — Stuart Cloete > < the Mexican Revolution of 1820 cast off the shackles of Spanish mercantilism — R.A.Billington > molt may imply casting off of feathers, skin, or other covering, especially during a period of difficulty or transition < the belief that social change can be effected without revolution or unpleasantness, that society can molt its outer covering and become new in shape and spirit — J.D.Hart > scrap and junk suggest discarding as worthless in existent form or operation, as an automobile or a ship is scrapped or junked. scrap is milder and less summary and final in its suggestion < most modern literary theory would be inclined to scrap the prose-poetry distinction — René Wellek & Austin Warren > < the idea of scrapping our two military academies or drastically altering them — C.T.Lanham > junk is a more forthright term, more drastic in indicating a demonstrated lack of serviceability, validity, or worth < the South has never been able to understand how the North, in its astonishing quest for perfection, can junk an entire system of ideas almost overnight — Donald Davidson > II. 1. card games 2. a. < the West had been the land of new hope … for the discards of industrialism — F.L.Allen > < finds his characteristic hero and characteristic story among the discards of society — R.P.Warren > b. c. • - into the discard |
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