woodwork 英 [ˈwʊdwɜ:k]   美 [ˈwʊdwɜrk]

woodwork

woodwork  英 [ˈwʊdwɜ:k] 美 [ˈwʊdwɜrk]

n. 木制品;木工活 

名词复数:woodworks 

If physical activity doesn't interest you, try prayer, needlework, woodwork or journaling. 如果你对运动不感兴趣,试试祈祷、刺绣、木工活或写日记;
More than 300 years after Europeans discovered it, the sofa thus remains the one piece of furniture that never simply disappears into the woodwork. 在欧洲人发现它的300多年后,沙发现在依旧是木制品中一件不会简单的消失的家具。

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  • n. 木制品;木工活
  • 1. If physical activity doesn't interest you, try prayer, needlework, woodwork or journaling.

    如果你对运动不感兴趣,试试祈祷、刺绣、木工活或写日记;

  • 2. More than 300 years after Europeans discovered it, the sofa thus remains the one piece of furniture that never simply disappears into the woodwork.

    在欧洲人发现它的300多年后,沙发现在依旧是木制品中一件不会简单的消失的家具。

  • 3. If someone comes out of the woodwork and says, "They stole that from me, " most investors will be scared off.

    不然,如果有一天有人突然跳出来说,“他们是从我这里剽窃的”,大部分投资者都会被吓退。

  • woodwork (n.) "article made of wood," 1640s, from wood (n.) + work (n.). Especially applied to wooden details of a house, hence figurative use of to come (or crawl) out of the woodwork, by 1960, suggestive of cockroaches, etc.
wood·work / ˈwʊdwɜːk ; NAmE ˈwʊdwɜːrk / noun [uncountable ] 1 things made of wood in a building or room, such as doors and stairs (建筑物或房间的)木建部份,木构件,木制品 The woodwork needs painting. 木建部份需要上油漆。 ( BrE) He hit the woodwork (= the wooden frame of the goal in the game of football/ soccer,etc.) twice before scoring. 他两次射门击中球门框之后,终得进球。 2 ( BrE) ( also ˈwood·work·ing NAmE, BrE ) the activity or skill of making things from wood 木工活;木工手艺 IDIOMS blend/fade into the ˈwoodwork to behave in a way that does not attract any attention; to disappear or hide 默默无闻;销声匿迹;蛰伏 come/crawl out of the ˈwoodwork ( informal, disapproving) if you say that sb comes/crawls out of the woodwork,you mean that they have suddenly appeared in order to express an opinion or to take advantage of a situation 突然露面;纷纷出笼 When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork. 他博彩中奖后,八杆子打不着的亲戚都突然来登门造访。 wood·work / ˈwʊdwɜːk ; NAmE ˈwʊdwɜːrk /
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