quiverful

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The amount held by a quiver
    — In the presence of the two delegations the mediating Governor had taken an arrow and shown them with what ease it could be broken; then how impossible he found it to break a quiverful of arrows, thus demonstrating the strength in union.
  2. A large amount.
    — The farm of Sheridan Lawrence, exhibiting its wide-stretching wheat-fields, some heads of which counted seventy-one kernels, with its patches of one-pound potatoes, twelve-foot sunflowers, and its quiverful of happy, tow-headed children, gives as sweet a picture of Canadian thrift and happiness as one would wish to see.

词形变化

quiverfuls plural quiversful plural

词汇关系

相关词
Quiverfull

词源

From quiver + -ful.
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