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latticework

/lat-is-wurk/US // ˈlæt ɪsˌwɜrk //

格子间,格子铺,格子架,网架

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
    • : a lattice.

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Examples

  • Milford Wolpoff, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues revived the latticework of Weidenreich’s trellis model in the 1980s.

  • Once a strangler is established in the crown, a latticework of downward-growing stems thickens with time and often surrounds the host, sometimes creating a hollow center if the host has soft wood and subsequently rots inside.

  • These moves show China’s determination to control what historians call “the infrastructure of empire,” the latticework that enables the international system to function.

  • The floors were of earth beaten hard, and the windows had bars or latticework, but no glass.

  • Mr. Tibbets guarded them for years, had them fenced with high latticework, and seldom allowed any one to touch them.

  • Observe that the three opening cells are lashed together loosely with a latticework.

  • Marechal Niel roses, and honeysuckles, and some tropical vines, climbed over latticework almost to the roof.

  • But, looking out through the marble latticework into the blue twilight, she was somewhat reassured.