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单词 covered
释义
coveredcov‧ered /ˈkʌvəd $ -ərd/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Bovis are using a special pincer machine to demolish covered ground level car parks.
  • Greater Bayonne has most of the town's shops, the covered market, and the cathedral.
  • Looking rather black and wrinkled, it's now the property of Feller's the Butcher's in Oxford's covered market.
  • None of the other guests had stirred, judging by the untouched food in the covered dishes on the sideboard.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto be covered with something
if something is covered in , with , or by something, it has that substance lying all over the top of it or spread all over it: · The ground was covered with snow.· Look at your clothes! They're covered in mud.· His face was covered by a thick black beard with tiny flecks of gray in it.
if an object is coated in or is coated with a liquid or soft substance, it has a layer of that substance all over its surface: · Serve the chicken with new potatoes coated in butter.
especially written to be covered with something thick and hard that is difficult to remove: · He took off his gloves, which were deeply encrusted with dirt.mud/dirt/blood etc encrusted (=covered with mud, dirt, blood etc): · Evan reached into the pocket of his mud-encrusted jacket and drew out a map.
to be covered thickly with something such as mud, especially in a way that looks unpleasant: · He looked at his garden tools, old and plastered with mud.· Her face was plastered in make-up.
to be covered with something thick and hard, especially mud: · The children were caked in mud from head to toe.· When the police found him, his shoes were missing and his hands were caked with dried blood.
be covered and hidden in mist etc -- used especially in literature: · I looked back, but the shore was shrouded in mist.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· His face was covered in blood.
· The kitchen floor was covered with dirt.
· Everything was filthy and covered in dust.
(=have flowers on every part)· The fields were covered in wild flowers.
· The mountains were covered in fog.
· The mountain slopes were covered in forest.
· The lawn was covered in frost.
· Our driveway was covered in ice.
(=be included in an insurance policy)· Flood damage isn't covered by the insurance.
(also be shrouded in mist literary)· The tops of the mountains were shrouded in mist.
(=be able to benefit from a scheme)· All employees are covered by the new bonus scheme.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Greater Bayonne has most of the town's shops, the covered market, and the cathedral.· Looking rather black and wrinkled, it's now the property of Feller's the Butcher's in Oxford's covered market.· And there is the covered market.· Yet there are people who see the stones throw distance from there to the covered market as an intolerable distance.· At any other time, the sights, sounds and smells of the covered market would have delighted her.· Many continue the tradition of a market day; others established permanent, covered markets in the last century.
· The hotel is built around a nineteenth-century palace, with covered walkways to the modern bedroom wings.· A covered walkway, already damp with footprints, led under the Midwest Highway that cut the city like a blade.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnouncovercoveragecoveringadjectiveundercovercovereduncoveredverbcoveruncoveradverbundercover
1having a roof:  a covered arena2having a layer of something on top:  snow-covered hills
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