whole cloth

名词 n. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A newly made textile which has not yet been cut. countable,uncountable
  2. The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made. figuratively,uncountable
    — Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth.
  3. Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else. figuratively,uncountable
    — The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth.
副词 adv.
  1. In full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke.

词形变化

whole cloths plural
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