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scaffolding

/skaf-uhl-ding, -ohl-/US // ˈskæf əl dɪŋ, -oʊl- //UK // (ˈskæfəldɪŋ) //

脚手架,棚架,鹰架

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a scaffold or system of scaffolds.
    • : materials for scaffolds.

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Examples

  • Denizens of Washington are conditioned to this whiplash by the time the Inauguration scaffolding starts to go up on Capitol Hill.

  • Rioters swarmed, battering the officers with metal pipes peeled from scaffolding and a pole with an American flag attached, police said.

  • They saw a crowd starting to move toward the Capitol, she said, and soon she could see some of them climbing on the scaffolding.

  • The mob knocked down barricades and used the scaffolding erected for the inauguration ceremony to scale the walls and swarm through windows and doors.

  • She calculated the risk of climbing two levels up a center scaffolding to get a view of the scene.

  • Today the church is wrapped in scaffolding and metal ribbons are holding its façade in place until someone pays to repair it.

  • “As you all know, we had a scaffolding incident here at One World Trade Center,” he now said.

  • Davis requires a sound scaffolding of fact and proof for his enthusiasms.

  • Even when a skeleton displays no evidence of disability, it might have been the scaffolding for an unhealthy body.

  • She was walking down the scaffolding, with all the lights in front of her.

  • And the sawn planks come from Russia and the Baltic, and the larches for scaffolding from the Merionethshire valleys.

  • So they set to work and made a tower of scaffolding with ropes, with timbers, with spars saved from their ships.

  • For the rest, figures are but the scaffolding, the method, and do not exist in Nature.

  • He stopped, leaning against scaffolding as he saw a familiar figure turn toward him.

  • The Priory is all scaffolding and paint; and we are still in a nightmare of uncertainty about our boys.