String

(noun.) a lightweight cord.

(noun.) a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.

(noun.) a collection of objects threaded on a single strand.

(noun.) a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases).

(noun.) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; 'a string of islands'; 'train of mourners'; 'a train of thought'.

(noun.) (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.

(noun.) a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod).

(verb.) add as if on a string; 'string these ideas together'; 'string up these songs and you'll have a musical'.

(verb.) provide with strings; 'string my guitar'.

(verb.) thread on or as if on a string; 'string pearls on a string'; 'the child drew glass beads on a string'; 'thread dried cranberries'.

(verb.) remove the stringy parts of; 'string beans'.

(verb.) string together; tie or fasten with a string; 'string the package'.

(verb.) stretch out or arrange like a string.

(verb.) move or come along.

校对:西蒙

• The explanation of this is, that a string may vibrate in a number of different ways. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I wish you could string them through. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Oh dear me, I must get some string, or silk, or—Oh, she cried, struck with a sudden thought, have you a knife? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She often took me out of my box, at my own desire, to give me air, and show me the country, but always held me fast by a leading-string. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• If the string vibrates as a whole merely, the tone given out is simple, and seems dull and characterless. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There was no speaking among the string of riders. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• An improved and extended string telephone. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They cut his bed-strings. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Of such melodious strings is Miss Pleasant Riderhood formed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• All these strings intertwining made Pancks a very cable of anchorage that night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• To one pair of strings there were glued, back to back, two sheets of paper, which, when folded over, formed the flaps of the portfolio. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• At the far eastern confine a strange cavalcade strung, in single file, over the brow of a low hill. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The man's body, strung to its efforts, vibrated strongly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The animals are driven into a catching pen at 1, where they are strung up by one leg, and secured to a traveling pulley on an overhead rail. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But it's a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung--that kind of thing, you know--will not do. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She wore no hat in the heated cafe, her loose, simple jumper was strung on a string round her neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This was too much for Dorothea's highly-strung feeling, and she burst into tears, sobbing against Tantripp's arm. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A signal legible to every sailor of all the fleets engaged in that fierce struggle was strung aloft upon the flagship. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Away at the landing stage, tiniest points of coloured rays were stringing themselves in the dusk. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A piano comprises five principal parts: first, the framing; second, the sounding board; third, the stringing; fourth, the key mechanism, or action, and fifth, the ornamental case. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

整理:鲁道夫