英语词汇“to work down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

transitive. To reduce (to a particular size, state, etc.); to make smaller, flatter, finer, etc.; to wear or whittle down (literal and figurative).

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 65 Before the Glass is wrought down to its true Figure.

1675 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (ed. 2) App. 10 Let not the Roughness of the Colour discourage you from proceeding, for that is to be wrought down.

1767 Let. Rope-dancing Monkey iv. 37 It is..surprizing, how this animated scene..could be so unnerved, so worked down to flatness unparallelled.

1784 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. I. p. cxxii With the blade-bones, worked down to a sharp edge, they form scythes.

1834 G. Thorburn Resid. Amer. 224 When first I began to handle the hammer,..my hands blistered too; but I wrought the blister down.

1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such v. 113 All human achievement must be wrought down to this spoon-meat.

1907 Carriage Monthly Mar. 330/1 Take a good welding heat, and work it down to the proper size.

2001 C. F. Taylor Native Amer. Weapons 72 The horn was worked down with a sharp knife to an even thickness.

单词	to work down
释义	> as lemmas to work down to work down transitive. To reduce (to a particular size, state, etc.); to make smaller, flatter, finer, etc.; to wear or whittle down (literal and figurative). Π 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 65 Before the Glass is wrought down to its true Figure. 1675 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (ed. 2) App. 10 Let not the Roughness of the Colour discourage you from proceeding, for that is to be wrought down. 1767 Let. Rope-dancing Monkey iv. 37 It is..surprizing, how this animated scene..could be so unnerved, so worked down to flatness unparallelled. 1784 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. I. p. cxxii With the blade-bones, worked down to a sharp edge, they form scythes. 1834 G. Thorburn Resid. Amer. 224 When first I began to handle the hammer,..my hands blistered too; but I wrought the blister down. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such v. 113 All human achievement must be wrought down to this spoon-meat. 1907 Carriage Monthly Mar. 330/1 Take a good welding heat, and work it down to the proper size. 2001 C. F. Taylor Native Amer. Weapons 72 The horn was worked down with a sharp knife to an even thickness. extracted from workv. < as lemmas
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