untopped
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
- simple past and past participle of untop
形容词 adj.
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Not having had the top cut off.
— Recently, there is commercial interest in planting trellised, untopped trees for earlier production in slow-growing regions such as the Western Cape.
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Not covered with a topping.
— In a Paris pizzeria, I watched rounds of pliable, untopped pizza dough get tossed into a very hot wood-burning oven and emerge puffed up, to be sprinkled simply with olive oil and salt.
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Unsurpassed.
— Thucydides, writing many centuries ago, averred that men usually embark on wars of conquest out of an aspiration for power, wealth, or out of fear. This statement is still untopped in its concision and aptness.
词源
From un- + topped.
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