velvet
n. 天鹅绒 a. 天鹅绒的
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教材释义与例句
天鹅绒，丝绒；天鹅绒似的东西
天鹅绒的
释义与例句
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A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
丝绒
天鹅绒
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Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
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A female chinchilla; a sow.
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The drug dextromethorphan.
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Money acquired by gambling.
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To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
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To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
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To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.
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To soften; to mitigate.
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to retract.
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Made of velvet.
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Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
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Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
政治“I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
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From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
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