| 单词 | spotted |
| 例句 | spotted adjective 1.•spotted leaves:mottled, dappled, speckled, flecked, freckled, freckly, dotted, stippled, brindle, brindled | informal splotchy. ANT plain. 2.•a black-and-white spotted dress:polka-dot, dotted. ANT plain.WORD NOTE stippled Stippled, flecked, dappled, variegated, speckled, spotted, pied, larded, dominoed, polka-dotted, brindled, freckled —all the words suggesting a mixture of light and dark strike me as one-word poems. Gerard Manley Hopkins called his great lyric about dappled things “Pied Beauty,” and to my ear such adjectives—and the condition they describe—seem homey, down to earth, essentially human. Nothing in our lives is pure and unalloyed; we love and we hate simultaneously, we act well and badly from one moment to the next. Our very souls are pieced together like old quilts or rag rugs. — MDConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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