cobweb

英語

其他形式

• copweb (棄用)

詞源

源自中古英語 copweb、coppeweb，等價於棄用詞cop (「蜘蛛」) +‎ web。對比中古荷蘭語 kopwebbe、德國低地德語 Kobbenwebbe (威斯特伐利亞)。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈkɒbwɛb/

• （美國）音頻：

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• 斷字：cob‧web

名詞

cobweb (複數 cobwebs)

1. 蜘蛛網 （尤指圖案混亂不規則的）
   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, 章號 X, 出自 Cape Cod, Provincetown，第 200 頁:

     […] there was stretched across his gateway a circular cobweb of the largest kind and quite entire. This looked so ominous that I actually turned aside and went in the back way.

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   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 出版於 1980，第 286 頁:

     A cobweb, night-spun, hung in an insidious circle from branch to branch, facing her. Early as it was, its first victim struggled in its gummy meshes.

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2. 蛛絲
3. (比喻義) 細細的殘渣，縹緲的事物
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   • 2018年2月10日, Phil McNulty, 「Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal」, 出自 BBC‎^[1]:

     Once the cobwebs of a lack-lustre first half were blown away, Spurs were irresistible and Arsenal were simply unable to cope with the power of Mousa Dembele in midfield and the creation and running of Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli - combined with the inevitable goalscoring prowess of Kane.

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4. 陷阱
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5. (網路用語，罕用) 很久沒有更新或沒人訪問的網頁
6. 斑鶲（Muscicapa striata）
7. (非正式，usually，以複數形式) 模糊不清的記憶
   • 2008, Burlan Eugene Ellison, The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel‎^[2]，第 98 頁:

     I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head

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   • 2012, Stanley M. Bierman, Napoleon's Penis: Plus Other Engaging and Outrageous Tales‎^[3]，第 16 頁:

     Veyz mir, meaning something like “Oh . . . my!,” was a Yiddish expression that I had not employed for a long, long time. Yet in the cobwebs of my memory, that expression was still lurking inside. How interesting!

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上義詞

• web

衍生詞彙

• cobwebbed
• cobwebbery
• cobweb brush
• cobwebby
• cobweb model
• cobweb site
• cobweb spider
• cobweb theory
• dwarf cobweb weaver spider