Wooden

(adj.) lacking ease or grace; 'the actor's performance was wooden'; 'a wooden smile' .

(adj.) made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; 'a wooden box'; 'an ancient cart with wooden wheels' .

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• Somebody has nailed this wooden seat in. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I don't,' said Boffin, in a free-handed manner, 'want to tie a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--down too tight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted expectation of his victim. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There were two wooden settles by the fire, one on either side of it, with a corresponding table before each. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On the table stood a little wooden box, open, and empty. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She swept up the hearth, asked at what time she should prepare tea, and quitted the room with the same wooden face with which she had entered it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The hollow wooden box re?nforces the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The room opened on a long wooden verandah, with the sea coming in at the windows. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Bradley came to him, sitting on his wooden lever, and asked what o'clock it was? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The wayfarer smoked his pipe out, put it in his breast, slipped off his great wooden shoes, and lay down on his back on the heap of stones. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Again, plac e the magnet in a wooden vessel, and then set the vessel afloat in a tub or cistern of still water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• By this means a large sheet of paper can be printed off by a single pull, and with more impression and greater sharpness than by two pulls with a wooden press. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• On the 23d Hancock's corps was moved to the wooden bridge which spans the North Anna River just west of where the Fredericksburg Railroad crosses. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• They had been drawn in chalk upon the black wooden door of the tool-house, which stands beside the lawn in full view of the front windows. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• George Pullman, who then had a small shop at Detroit and was working on his sleeping-car, made Edison a lot of wooden apparatus for his chemicals, to the boy's delight. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The two ends of the wire were connected with an electro-magnet fastened to a vertical wooden frame. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These early cannon, bombards, and mortars were mounted on heavy solid wooden frames and moved with great difficulty from place to place. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Here he turned swiftly down a narrow passage, passed through a wooden gate into a deserted yard, and then opened with a key the back door of a house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Then he produced his wooden cuts, and explained in detail how he had made them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Early in the morning I was out, and looking in, unseen, at one of the wooden windows of the forge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The enemy was found strongly intrenched on the high ground overlooking the river, and commanding the Wooden Bridge with artillery. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is built upon its side and when finished resembles a wooden wall about seventy-five feet long four inches high and three inches wide. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now, you see, Rokesmith,' he went on, 'a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--is liable to jealousy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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