英：[ˈdʒækstrɔ:]
美：[ˈdʒækˌstrɔ]
jackstraw如何读
jackstraw是什么意思
- n.稻草人；小木片；骨
jackstraw英英释义
noun
jackstraws plural in form but singular in construction a game in which a set of straws or thin strips is let fall in a heap with each player in turn trying to remove one at a time without disturbing the rest
one of the pieces used in the game jackstraws
jackstraw词源中文解释
1590年代，“稻草制成的男人雕像”，源自 Jack 和 straw（名词）； 因此，“没有实质或手段的人”。它也是1381年农民起义领袖之一的名字。作为一种用稻草或条带玩的游戏的名称，始于1801年。相关： Jackstraws。
jackstraw词源英文解释
The first known use of jackstraw was in 1795
jackstraw儿童词典英英释义
jackstrawnoun
one of the pieces used in the game jackstraws
plural a game in which straws or thin strips are let fall in a heap and each player in turn tries to remove one at a time without disturbing the rest
jackstraw 例句
1 The children were tumbled in a heap like a pile of jackstraws.
2 There sat the wise man in the midst of his books and bottles and diagrams and dust and chemicals and cobwebs, making strange figures upon the table with jackstraws and a piece of chalk.
3 If those Hell-devils drop a bomb on us, this building will cave in like jackstraws!
4 Their own lives were in constant danger from tumbling wreckage, for the rescuers were playing a game of tragic jackstraws.
5 Tell him we don't care a jackstraw for his mutiny, and that if he lives through it we'll take him in irons to Panama and have him hanged as high as Haman.
6 You see, we used to cut paper dolls and play jackstraws together ages ago.
7 The forest, swept as by a giant broom, became a jackstraw tangle of destruction.
8 They were just like ordinary jackstraws, except they were of different colors, and a little card told how to count.
9 It looked very small and solitary from this height, and the rail fences about its scanty inclosures hardly reached the dignity of suggesting jackstraws.
10 “The Colony Fire specifically is burning in a really bad spot … where these trees are like jackstraws and it’s difficult to put fire personnel into some of these areas because of that,” he said.
11 This was the result of that game of jackstraws.
12 She was past mistress of the pretty game of jackstraws, much in vogue at that time.
13 He was not able to be with the jackstraw all the time, because she had no wings of bird, she couldn't fly with the little bird seeking another sky.
它不能永远陪伴着稻草人，因为稻草人没有一双鸟儿的翅膀，她不能和小鸟一起飞翔，去寻找另一片的天空。
14 Every sort and shape of intrigue is in the general heap and tangle, and the jealous nations sit round, each trying to lift out its own jackstraw.
15 Faro is to other games as war is to jackstraws.
16 “And why were they all crosswise with each other, like jackstraws?”
17 You play with jackstraws, balls, bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
18 Before him, from the figures covering the earth like thrown jackstraws, an arm was suddenly lifted.
19 I have seen the logs jammed out there in the river until they looked like a giant's game of jackstraws.
20 You’ve got no right to resent it, though I don’t care a jackstraw whether you do or not.