Chisel

(noun.) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge.

(verb.) carve with a chisel; 'chisel the marble'.

整理:洛厄尔

• A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The resemblance is correct; the head is a copy from the excellent bust produced by the chisel of Houdon. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Have you the chisel and the bags? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It was evident that a chisel or strong knife had been thrust in, and the lock forced back with it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The blanks, as the steel before it has teeth is called, are laid on the anvil and struck with the chisel, which rests obliquely on the blank, each blow raising a ridge or tooth. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Wrapped around the cylinder was a sheet of tinfoil, with which engaged a small chisel-like recording needle, connected adhesively with the centre of an iron diaphragm. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Table knives, plane irons and chisels of a very superior kind are made of shear steel, while common steel is wrought up into ordinary cutlery. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Another difficulty was the lack of proper tools; but he worked at these until his box was supplied with a stock of knives, saws, chisels, and gravers of many different patterns. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I charge you, when you next look on your father's monument, to respect the name chiselled there. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• One man in times of old, it is said, imparted vitality to the statue he had chiselled; others may have the contrary gift of turning life to stone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If those illustrious artists had in truth chiselled these forms, how many passing generations had their giant proportions outlived! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It is like his face--just like the chiselling of his features: do you know his autograph? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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