veneer
英語 編輯
詞源 編輯
源自德語 Furnier，源自furnieren (「覆蓋」)，源自法語 fournir (「布置；達成」)，源自中古法語 fornir，源自古法語 fornir、furnir (「布置」)，源自早期古法蘭克語 frumjan (「提供」)，源自原始日耳曼語 *frumjaną (「使...更進一步」)。同源詞有古高地德語 frumjan、frummen (「達成，執行，提供」)、古英語 fremian (「執行」)。詳見furnish。
發音 編輯
名詞 編輯
- （覆蓋在粗糙材質上的裝飾性質的）精製薄層
- 1951 May, 「British Railways Standard Coaches」, 出自 Railway Magazine，頁號s 327-328:
- Compartment and corridor partitions are of blockboard, with appropriate decorative veneers to suit the varied interior decoration.
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- 1963, Margery Allingham, 「Foreword」, 出自 The China Governess[1]:
- A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
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- （掩飾內心想法或本性的）表面，偽裝
- 2014 12月 5, 「Joy From the World」, 出自 The New York Times Magazine, retrieved 6 December 2014:
- 「Yalda,」 Dabashi says, 「has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.」
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動詞 編輯
veneer (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 veneers，現在分詞 veneering，一般過去時及過去分詞 veneered)
- (及物，木工) 給...鑲嵌裝飾用薄層
- to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany
- 給家具覆蓋紅木薄層
- 1947 January and February, 「South African Royal Train」, 出自 Railway Magazine，頁號 36:
- The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.
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- (及物，比喻義) 用虛情假意掩蓋