mossback

英式音标：['mɒsbæk]

美式音标：['mɒsbæk]

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概况：

n. （美）绿毛龟；极端保守的人；乡巴佬

词义：

n.

绿毛龟；动作迟缓的大鱼；野牛；乡巴佬

英英释义

mossback[ 'mɔsbæk, 'mɔ:s- ]

n.an extremely old-fashioned conservative

用法：

权威例句

Tire grooving tool

MOSSBACK

Ships, Machinery and Mossback

The comeback mossback. (Bylines).(reemployment of editor Knute Berger at Seattle Times)(Brief Article)

My Beloved Mossback

Mossback Timber Sale

Mossback Meets Guns' n' Roses

Mossback Timber Sale

The Mossback correspondence together with Mr. Mossback's views on certain practical subjects, with a short account of his visit to U...

Mossback Correspondence Together

同义词：yokel

英语词源：

mossback (n.)

"conservative," 1874, especially of poor whites from Carolina, originally (1872) in reference to those who hid out to avoid service in the Confederate army (and would have stayed out till the moss grew on their backs); from moss + back (n.).

造句：

1. Women, he says, should give up alcohol before they plan to conceive.

他说女性在计划怀孕之前应该戒酒。

来自柯林斯例句

2. You may conceive a new world in the atomic age.

你可以设想出原子时代的新世界.

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3. I can hardly conceive of your doing such a thing.

我很难想象你会做出这种事情.

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4. I could not conceive that he would do such a silly thing.

我不能想像他竟会干这种傻事.

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5. It's difficult to conceive of traveling to the moon.

难以想象到月球旅行会是什么样子.

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[ conceive 造句 ]