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单词 high-wrought
释义 ˈhigh-wrought, a.
1. Agitated or excited to a high degree.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 2 It is a high wrought Flood.1702Rowe Tamerl. v. i, The high-wrought Tempest in my Soul.1814Scott Wav. xxvii, The present high-wrought state of his feelings.
2. Wrought with exquisite art or skill; ‘accurately finished, nobly laboured’ (J.).
1728Pope Dunc. ii. 187 Thou triumph'st, Victor of the high-wrought day, And the pleas'd dame, soft smiling, lead'st away.1838Lytton Alice v. vi, She understood not his high-wrought scruples.
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