- n. 細絲；亂絲，糾纏一團
- vt. 解開
- vi. 分成細絲
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?sleaves;過去式:?sleaved;過去分詞:?sleaved;現(xiàn)在分詞:?sleaving;
英文詞源
- sleave (v.)
- "to separate or divide" (threads, strands, fibers), Old English -sl?fan, from stem of -slifan "to separate, split, cleave," from Proto-Germanic *slifanan, perhaps related to the root of slip (v.). Compare German Schleife "a loop, knot, noose." Related: Sleaved; sleaving. As a noun, "knotted, tangled silk or thread," 1590s, from the verb; this is the word in Shakespeare's rauel'd Sleeue of Care ("Macbeth").