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hewn

/hyoon or, often, yoon/US // hyun or, often, yun //

凿开的,凿开,凿岩,凿空

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
    • : given a rough surface: hewn stone.

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Examples

  • And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down.

  • Librizzi has always struck me as an admirable man, rough-hewn as a New York cabbie.

  • I…saw…18th-century hand-hewn and hand-planed joists and beams with extremely wide floorboards right above them….

  • The man is uncivil and impolitic, rough-hewn enough for leather fringe and dung-crusted boots.

  • Back then such a thing was novel; today you could fill a manly, hand-hewn shelf with dad books.

  • The same may be said of the sarcophagi in the principal temple, which is hewn out of a block of fine white marble.

  • On the opposite bank of the river, a small hill rises, upon which rests the figure of a large and rather plump ox hewn in stone.

  • The principal temple, Kylas, is the most wonderful of all those which are hewn out of the rock.

  • He then advanced over the log slowly and cautiously, for its upper surface, hewn level and smooth, was but four inches wide.

  • The two houses, which they had noticed as they passed in April, were constructed of hewn boards gray with age.