calico
英 [ˈkælɪkəʊ]
美 [ˈkælɪkoʊ]
n. (本色白)厚棉布; 印花平布
复数：calicos
BNC.23901 / COCA.23048
牛津词典
noun
- （本色白）厚棉布
a type of heavy cotton cloth that is usually plain white - 印花平布
a type of rough cotton cloth that has a pattern printed on it
柯林斯词典
- 白棉布;白布
Calicois plain white fabric made from cotton.
英英释义
noun
- coarse cloth with a bright print
adj
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
- a jester dressed in motley
- the painted desert
- a particolored dress
- a piebald horse
- pied daisies
- made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
- calico dresses
- a calico cat
双语例句
- I smile as I count seventeen hand-sewn calico hearts.
当我数着被子上17朵手绣的印花布心形图案时，我笑了。 - In the waters of the Fiji Islands, an emperor shrimp and a commensal crab nearly vanish in the calico pattern of a large leopard sea cucumber.
在斐济群岛的水域中，帝王虾和寄居蟹消失隐秘在大豹海参皮肤上豹纹中。 - A strapping girl of fifteen, in the customary sunbonnet and calico dress, asked me if I "used tobacco"& meaning did I chew it.
一个十五岁的高个儿女孩，戴着普通的太阳帽，穿着印花布的连衣裙，问我“用不用烟草”&意思是我要不要嚼烟草。 - The colonists bartered calico for Indian land.
殖民者以印花布交换印地安人的土地。 - On the floor, the corpse is covered with a sheet of calico.
地上的死者已经被蒙着一块白布。 - So we shortened up one of the calico gowns, and I turned up my trouser-legs to my knees and got into it.
于是，我们把一件印花睡衣弄短，我把自己的裤腿卷到膝盖上，穿上了那件衣服。 - It can be seen that the characteristics'civilians of the blue calico is subsisted and developed with its soul.
可见，蓝印花布的平民化特质是其生存和发展的灵魂。 - A spotted or calico horse or pony.
带斑点或带斑纹的马或小型马。 - There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too.
还有两件脏旧不堪的花洋布衣服，还有一顶太阳帽和几件女人的内衣，都挂在墙上。 - He can chose either to work from patterns or to use calico and create the pattern directly onto the dress stand.
他可以用纸样裁剪，也可以用样布直接在胸架上制出样板。