- A tapestry is a picture woven into cloth. It's a decorative rug you hang on the wall, with detailed images or designs on it. Some tapestries, like the famous Unicorn Tapestries, tell stories with their pictures.
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- n. 织锦；挂毯；绣帷
- vt. 用挂毯装饰
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1. Have you heard about our “tapestry”?
您听说过本公司的挂毯吗？
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2. If you remove one piece from the mosaic or one thread from the tapestry, you destroy it.
倘若从拼画上取下一片或织锦上抽去一丝，这个作品就会被破坏。
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3. Wildlife, insects, frogs, birds, and soil organisms are able to play their roles in the tapestry of ecology, and we are able to play ours, without interference or compromise.
野生动物、昆虫、青蛙、鸟类和土壤生物能够在生态环境的织锦中扮演他们的角色，而我们可以做好我们的事情，两者不受干涉或不需妥协。
- tapestry (n.) late 14c., tapiestre, with unetymological -t-, from Old French tapisserie "tapestry" (14c.), from tapisser "to cover with heavy fabric," from tapis "heavy fabric, carpet," from tapiz "carpet, floor covering" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *tappetium, from Byzantine Greek tapetion, from classical Greek, diminutive of tapes (genitive tapetos) "heavy fabric, carpet, rug," from an Iranian source (compare Persian taftan "to turn, twist"), from PIE *temp- "to stretch." The figurative use is first recorded 1580s.
tap·es·try / ˈtæpəstri ; NAmE ˈtæpəstri / noun [countable , uncountable ] ( plural tap·es·tries ) a picture or pattern that is made by weavingcoloured wool onto heavy cloth; the art of doing this 壁毯；挂毯；织锦；绣帷 ◆ medieval tapestries 中世纪的壁毯 ◆ tapestry cushions 织锦沙发靠背垫 ◆ crafts such as embroidery and tapestry 诸如刺绣和织锦之类的手工艺 ▶ tap·es·tried / ; NAmE / adjective ◆ tapestried walls 挂有绣帷的墙 tapestry tapestries tap·es·try / ˈtæpəstri ; NAmE ˈtæpəstri / tap·es·tried / ; NAmE /
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