wood
noun /wʊd/
/wʊd/
Idioms - enlarge image
木;木头;木料;木柴 - He chopped some wood for the fire.
他劈了些柴烧火。 - a piece of wood
一块木头 - a plank /block of wood
木板/木块 - All the furniture was made of wood.
这里所有的家具都是用木料制作的。 - The house had dark wood floors.
这间房子用的是黑木地板。 - furniture made of a variety of different woods
用各种不同的木材制作的家具 - In the spring, cut out the old wood and shorten the young stems (= of bushes, etc.).
春天,把旧木头砍掉,把嫩茎缩短。
Topics Physics and chemistrya2- I made a coffee table out of a few bits of wood.
我用几块小木头做了一个咖啡桌。 - Over the years, much of the wood in the house had rotted.
过了这么多年,房子的木头很大一部份都腐朽了。 - Pine is a soft wood.
松木属于软木。 - She pruned the dead wood from the tree.
她把树上的枯枝剪了下来。 - She stained the wood green.
她把木头漆成了绿色。 - The cabinet is made of cherry wood.
柜子是樱桃木做的。 - The chapel has some interesting works in wood and marble.
教堂里有一些引人注目的木质和大理石结构。 - The direction of the wood grain influences the composition of the carving.
木头纹路的方向影响雕刻的构造。 - The pub had dark wood panelling.
这家酒馆用的是黑木镶板。 - The wood was too green to burn.
这些木头太潮,点不着。 - There were neat piles of kindling wood against the wall.
墙边整齐地放着几堆引火柴。 - Traditionally wood was seasoned in the open air.
传统上木材是露天风干的。 - We carve the moulds in wood.
我们用木头刻模子。 - We gathered wood for the fire.
我们找些木柴来生火。 - When using a plane, be sure to follow the grain of the wood.
用刨子时一定要顺着木头的纹理。 - a wardrobe in a mahogany wood finish
桃花心木贴面的衣橱 - the sound of splintering wood
木头裂开的声音 - varnish that retains the natural wood look
保留天然木纹的漆
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hard
- soft
- dark
- …
- bit
- block
- piece
- …
- carve
- chop
- cut
- …
- splinter
- rot
- burn
- …
- chip
- shavings
- pulp
- …
- in wood
- the grain of the wood
- He chopped some wood for the fire.
- enlarge image(also woods [plural])an area of trees, smaller than a forest
树林;林地 - a large wood
一大片树林 - in the woods a walk in the woods
在树林中散步 - in a wood a clearing in the wood
林中空地
Topics Geographya2- We descended through an oak wood to the village below.
我们穿过一片橡树林,来到下面的村子。 - the largest ancient wood in Scotland
苏格兰最大的古森林 - a cabin deep in the woods of Maine
缅因州林区深处的小屋 - We came to a clearing in the woods.
我们来到林中的一片空地。 - She wandered through the woods.
她信步穿过林区。 - He wandered through the beech wood.
他信步穿过山毛榉树林。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- dense
- thick
- …
- in the wood
- into the wood
- through the wood
- …
- deep in the woods
- the edge of the woods
- the middle of the woods
- …
- a large wood
- [countable] a heavy wooden ball used in the game of bowls
(保龄球戏的)木瓶 - [countable] a golf club with a large head, that was usually made of wood in the past
compare ironTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2木头球杆(旧时通常有木制顶部的高尔夫球棒)
词源Old English wudu, from a Germanic word related to Welsh gwŷdd ‘trees’.
Idioms
neck of the woods
- (informal) a particular place or area
某地方;某地区 - He's from your neck of the woods (= the area where you live).
他是你那一带的人。 - What are you doing in this neck of the woods?
你在这块儿干什么呢?
- He's from your neck of the woods (= the area where you live).
not out of the woods
- (informal) not yet free from difficulties or problems
尚未摆脱困境;尚未渡过难关 - We’re not out of the woods yet, you know.
你知道,我们还没脱离险境。
- We’re not out of the woods yet, you know.
not see the wood for the trees (British English)
(North American English not see the forest for the trees)
- to not see or understand the main point about something, because you are paying too much attention to small details
见树不见林
touch wood (British English)
(North American English knock on wood)
- (saying) used when talking about your previous good luck or your hopes for the future, to avoid bringing bad luck
(表示希望继续走好运) - I've been driving for over 20 years and never had an accident—touch wood!
我开车 20 多年从来没出过车祸,但愿好运常在!
- I've been driving for over 20 years and never had an accident—touch wood!