Shard



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. ( 陶器等) 碎片
• ［英］ n. ( 陶器等) 碎片 ( fragment of a brittle substance)
• ［类］ shard : pottery / fragment : bone / crumb : bread ( 陶器的碎片 / 骨头的碎片 / 面包的碎屑)
• ［例］ The pole lay in shards on the pavement.

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceard; akin to Old English scieran to cut — more at shear
• Date: before 12th century
• 1.
  • a. a piece or fragment of a brittle substance <shards of glass>; broadly a small piece or part ; scrap <little shards of time and space recorded by the camera's lens — Rosalind Krauss>
  • b. shell, scale; especially elytron
• 2. (or sherd) fragments of pottery vessels found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived
• 3. highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediments

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