fetching
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
美 /ˈfɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act by which something is fetched.
— These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.
动词 v.
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present participle and gerund of fetch
— She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
形容词 adj.
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Attractive; pleasant to regard.
— Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
词源
词源 1
From fetch + -ing.
词源 2
From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing.
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