Net

(noun.) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals.

(noun.) a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects.

(noun.) game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton.

(noun.) a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey).

(verb.) catch with a net; 'net a fish'.

(verb.) make as a net profit; 'The company cleared $1 million'.

(verb.) yield as a net profit; 'This sale netted me $1 million'.

(adj.) remaining after all deductions; 'net profit' .

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• There is not a savage or barbaric race to-day that is not held in a net of such tradition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The net conclusion is that acting with an aim is all one with acting intelligently. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The net is drawn pretty close round Fitzroy Simpson, he remarked, and I believe myself that he is our man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Our net conclusion is that life is development, and that developing, growing, is life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Octavian's net closed slowly round his rival. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The gross tonnage of ships passing through in 1898 was 12,962,632, the net tonnage 9,238,603. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I pointed to the spot where he had disappeared, and we followed the track with boats; nets were cast, but in vain. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I rowed up opposite the fisherman's island where there were boats drawn up and men were mending nets. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• These implements no doubt stood about in the interior of the house, from the walls of which hung his fowling-nets. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Their nets were made of flax; they had as yet no knowledge of hemp and hempen rope. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• True, we saw two or three vagabonds mending their nets, but never trying to catch any thing with them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There were many fishing boats along the quay and nets were spread on racks. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• She had just been for a row on the river, and the sun that netted the little waves with gold seemed to have caught her in its meshes. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• This was a paradisal bird that could never be netted, it must fly by itself to the heart. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Europe is still netted in boundaries drawn in the horse and road era. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I was shown into a pretty but rather close drawing-room, and there sat Agnes, netting a purse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Weaving, braiding, and netting are very old arts, but the art of knitting is comparatively modern. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Huge flies, ignorant of larders and wire-netting, and quite in a savage state, buzzed about him without knowing that he was a man. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The window-curtains were lace; each chair and sofa had its own particular veil of netting, or knitting. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Rosamond rose and reached her netting, and then said, Do you care about dancing at all? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I held the mosquito netting in my hands. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Shall I be netting a purse, or will it have a better effect to put on my gloves and be doing nothing? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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