英:['dɔ:bə]
美:['dɔbə]
英:['dɔ:bə]
美:['dɔbə]
词根:daub
n.daub 涂抹;涂料;拙劣的画
daubing 涂抹(炉衬的局部修理);火砖灰修补
v.daubing 涂抹;玷污;假装(daub的ing形式)
vi.daub 涂抹;乱画
vt.daub 涂抹;乱画;弄脏
noun
one that daubs something: such as
old-fashioned an unskillful painter
His wrath against this upstart artist who secretly entertained his sister in his studio grew with the minutes. It would be his privilege very shortly to read that scrubby dauber a lesson in deportment which he would remember.—P. G. Wodehouse
a device or marker used for applying daubs of paint or color see also mud dauber
a bingo dauber [=a colored marker used for highlighting the numbers on a bingo card]
The first known use of dauber was in the 14th century
1 He has talent, great talent, while the rest of us are but daubers.
2 It was outrageous, the way they acted last night; the noise they made in that dauber's studio.
3 Ignorance and bad taste had other daubers in their pay.
4 The one I know—a clumsy dauber in a smudgy world.'
5 When Cyrus Glover was informed that his daughter intended to marry a dauber in paints, he started for Paris on ten hours' notice.
6 “Well, that’s the end of that,” Bonnie said, capping the green dauber and placing it in her furry white bingo bag.
7 A dancing-girl, who had not much to do, deigned to grant the little Flemish dauber, the favor of sitting for her portrait.
8 I ask you to show yourself to these people as a serious and thoughtful fellow, and not as a mere dauber of canvas and scraper of fiddles.
9 Well, it does seem wonderful to me that unknown theatrical daubers should know so much more of nature than the public for whom they paint.
10 Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, a leading art theorist, labeled them “ciphers of regression” — insignificant, backward daubers who would soon disappear.
11 I am the "presumptuous dauber" of the critics—despised by my creditors—emphatically a failure throughout.'
12 Everywhere else the dauber's brush had been at work.
13 Admission is $35, which includes bingo games, a neon dauber and a chili dinner.
14 So, buckle up, grab your virtual daubers, and join us for a thrilling ride.
15 "Lofty and moral creations don't sell in times like these," gravely replied the old dauber.
16 With daubers, though, and wretched copyists who would pass off copies as originals, I have nothing to do.
17 Course, it’s his hair, and if he wants to train it to stand up on top like a clothes brush or a blacking dauber, who am I that should curl the lip of scorn?
18 “Even after the blocked punt the demeanor on the sideline was outstanding — offense, defense, special teams, nobody was hanging their daubers.”
19 You rascally dauber," old Beelzebub cries, "Take heed how you wrong me, again!
20 There is a tradition that Titian expelled this scholar from his academy, saying of the dyer's son, that 'he would never be anything but a dauber.'
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