Daub

(noun.) an unskillful painting.

(noun.) material used to daub walls.

(verb.) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; 'smear the wall with paint'; 'daub the ceiling with plaster'.

(verb.) apply to a surface; 'daub paint onto the wall'.

录入:莉娜

• Fraud and robbery are high-sounding words--justified, you think, by a fancied resemblance in some young imp to an idle daub of a dead man's Brother! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Quickly he unslung his bow and fitted a well-daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang, the tiny missile leaped to meet her in mid-air. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings of an unknown purport (see illus. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In more recent times the design was cut in relief on hard wood, the relief being then daubed with coloring matter and applied by hand to successive portions of the cloth. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There is something in daubing a little one's self, and having an idea of the process. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

校对:奥菲莉娅