| 单词 | crazy-work |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrazy-work crazy quilt n. originally U.S. a patchwork quilt made of pieces of stuff of all kinds in fantastic patterns or without any order; also attributive and figurative; so crazy-work. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover > quilt > types of leatherdoom1702 duvet1759 eiderdown1872 futon1875 plumeau1875 crazy quilt1886 puff1894 puffin1959 continental quilt1969 Doona1973 quillow1989 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Nov. 6/2 What is generally called ‘crazy quilt’ in the States and patchwork in England. 1888 Boston Evening Jrnl. 20 June A Washington letter gives a clever sketch of the conversation which recently took place at the house of a matron who receives a hundred or two of people on the afternoon of ‘her day’. ‘Crazy quilt conversation’, the hostess declared it to be. 1890 Cent. Mag. May 47/1 As uncertain in marking as the pattern of a crazy-quilt. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed 49 The present system is a mere crazy-quilt, quite unsatisfactory in a thousand ways. 1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now xxii. 118 Machiavelli's emotions were as various as the colours of a crazy quilt. 1958 Listener 13 Nov. 765/1 Can anything but crazy-quilt legislation emerge from a chamber exposed to pressures such as these? 1963 Economist 28 Sept. 1121/3 The crazy-quilt redevelopment of Lower Manhattan. < as lemmas |
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