feathery
英 [ˈfeðəri]
美 [ˈfeðəri]
adj. 轻软的; 羽毛似的
BNC.21229 / COCA.17736
牛津词典
adj.
- 轻软的;羽毛似的
light and soft; like feathers
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 羽毛似的;羽状的;轻薄的;绒绒的
If something isfeathery, it has an edge divided into a lot of thin parts so that it looks soft.- The foliage was soft and feathery.
叶子如羽毛般轻软柔和。
- The foliage was soft and feathery.
- ADJ-GRADED 轻软的;轻柔的
Featheryis used to describe things that are soft and light.- ...flurries of small, feathery flakes of snow.
飘洒着轻柔小雪花的阵雪
- ...flurries of small, feathery flakes of snow.
英英释义
adj
- adorned with feathers or plumes
- characterized by a covering of feathers
- the feathery congregation of jays
- resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers
- feathery palm trees
双语例句
- And one day we started saving up for a couple of lovebirds of our own: the feathery kind.
我们开始攒钱给自己买一对情侣鹦鹉,羽毛轻软的那种。 - As each years snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly to lose their feathery points and become tiny grains of ice.
由于每年的雪花积累在表面之上,蒸发和融化使得雪花慢慢失去其羽状尖端而变成微小的冰粒。 - Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets.
西班牙一种草本植物,轻薄的羽毛状圆锥花序,用作干花。 - Primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk.
原始的棘皮动物,有五只或更多的软臂从中心圆盘放射状伸出。 - Free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms.
自由飘浮的无柄海百合,有十只羽状的手臂;多见于多泥的海底。 - Any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive.
各种小型至微小型的吸食类昆虫,若有翅膀即是窄而有毛;以树汁为食,其中许多都有破坏性。 - Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae.
典型的晨昏或夜间活动的昆虫,身体短胖,触角柔软如发。 - This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles'walk, arrived at Heathcliff's garden-gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow-shower.
我拿了我的帽子,走了四英里的路,刚刚到希斯克利夫先生家的花园门口,天上也飘起了雪花。 - Feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia.
亚洲和马来西亚的一种羽状蕨类。 - Originally meaning pipe or flute the feathery bit at the top is the bamboo radical, indicating a section of bamboo culm gu ǎ n later evolved into a verb meaning to manage or to be in charge of.
这个汉字的本意是管道或长笛,上面是竹字头,表示是竹秆的一部分。管字后来发展成动词,意思为管理或负责。