Sketch

(noun.) preliminary drawing for later elaboration; 'he made several studies before starting to paint'.

(noun.) short descriptive summary (of events).

(noun.) a brief literary description.

(verb.) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; 'sketch the outline of the book'; 'outline his ideas'.

(verb.) make a sketch of; 'sketch the building'.

录入:昆西

• Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It is a sort of rough sketch for use in direction of further activities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A diagrammatic sketch of this remarkable machine is shown in Fig. 5, which shows a front elevation with the casings, hopper, etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In the beginning of his experimentation he had made the conditions of test very severe by the construction of forms similar to that shown in the sketch below. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I sat down and tried, first to sketch, then to read--but the woman in white got between me and my pencil, between me and my book. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You will have my sketches, some time or other, to look ator my tour to reador my poem. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Dr. Franklin also planned a boat of this kind in 1785 and illustrated the same by sketches. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Mr. Hale asked to look at their sketches. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I can remember the conversation that passed far more easily than the sketches that I mechanically looked over. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• These sketches gave him a local reputation, and his friends were not surprised when at seventeen he left Lancaster to seek his fortune as a painter of portraits and miniatures in Philadelphia. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• She has already promised some further sketches. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He sketched quickly and happily; glad at last to have the problem under his hand; glad at last actually to be engaged upon it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We have sketched too the gathering for a human sacrifice, some fifteen thousand years ago. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They came past the spot where she and Mr. Lennox had sketched. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance, said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had occurred. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Truly, if they are to be sketched--and they are very picturesque--we had better not put it off till next year. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He thought they had come too close to the bridge for safety and when the sketching was finished, he was relieved. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• She stood sketching on the table-cloth, with her face clouded and set, and was silent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I don't know,' Mrs Lammle answers, stopping, and sketching out the pattern of the paper on the wall with the point of her parasol; 'it depends. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was knitting as she read aloud. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• As he says it, Mrs Lammle leaves off sketching, and looks at him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As they approached it, a figure, conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens, was seated on a bench, sketching the old tree. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• SKETCH-BOOK One morning the sisters were sketching by the side of Willey Water, at the remote end of the lake. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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