paperweight

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
    — The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
  2. Any object used for this purpose.
    — John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
  3. A useless piece of equipment. slang
    — On Windows, the card has a working driver. On Linux right now, it's a paperweight.

词形变化

paperweights plural paper-weight alternative,archaic

词源

From paper + weight.
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