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单词 chinese box
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Chinese box
Chinese box n. one of a nest of boxes: see nest n. 5.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > containing others > one of a nest of boxes
Chinese box1829
1829 R. C. Sands Writings (1834) II. 57 Some of the members..thus compacted like Chinese boxes.
1921 V. Woolf Monday or Tuesday 78 Like a vast nest of Chinese boxes..turning ceaselessly one within another the city murmured.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. ii. 34 There is no rank scale in lexis: no ‘Chinese box’ arrangement of pattern-carrying units.
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