oakum

英式音标：[ˈəʊkəm]

美式音标：[ˈoʊkəm]

词汇分类：石油化工专业常用词汇,雾都孤儿（Oliver Twist）,瓦尔登湖——亨利·大卫·梭罗,白鲸 Moby Dick: or the White Whale,老人与海（The Old Man and the Sea),《老人与海》 The old man and the sea

概况：

n. 麻絮；填絮（用于填塞船缝等）

词义：

n.

麻絮，填絮（用于填塞船缝）；油麻丝；

英英释义

oakum[ 'əukəm ]

n.loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.
睡着的时候，他闻到甲板上柏油和填絮的味道，还闻到早晨陆地上风送来的非洲气息。

权威例句

Oakum

Oakum packing

Oakum wrapping machine

AN OAKUM RESPIRATOR

Picking Oakum (poem)

Oakum as a Surgical Dressing.

Oakum picking in the twenty-first century

Oakum for caulking boats, close-up view: Melvin Combden, Seldom-Come-By

Ashes and Sparks: Mice peeping out of oakum

1442 A study on the application using oakum and urethane as a repair for water-leakage in expansion joint and cracks

同义词：wadding,pledget

英语词源：

oakum (n.)

"loose fiber obtained from taking apart old hemp ropes," early 15c., from Old English acumba "tow, oakum, flax fibers separated by combing," literally "what is combed out," from Proto-Germanic *us-kambon (source of Old High German achambi); first element cognate with Old English a- "away, out, off;" second element from stem of cemban "to comb," from camb "a comb;" from PIE *gembh- "tooth, nail" (see comb (n.)).

造句：

1. The word is oakum.

这个词是oakum。

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2. To make(a boat) watertight by packing seams with a waterproof material, such as oakum or pitch.

麻纤维，有时涂上焦油、杂酚或沥青作保护层，主要用于木船上捻缝和填塞管子接头。

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3. He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell o Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.

他睡着时闻到甲板上柏油和填絮的气味，还闻到早晨陆地上刮来的风带来的非洲气息。

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4. He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.

睡着的时候，他闻到甲板上柏油和填絮的味道，还闻到早晨陆地上风送来的非洲气息。

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5. Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.

然而我们应该更经常地像好奇的旅行家一样在船尾浏览周遭的风景，不要一面旅行，一面却像愚蠢的水手，只顾低头撕麻絮。

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6. Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.

然而我们应该更经常地像好奇的旅行家一样在船尾浏览周遭的风景，不要一面旅行，一面却像愚蠢的水手，只顾低头撕麻絮。

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