Shred

(noun.) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount.

(verb.) tear into shreds.

手打:奈杰尔

• You can see the color of his hair--faded, somewhat--by this thin shred that clings still to the temple. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And down she fell--down all around me--down in shreds and fragments--and I trode upon her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• For Heaven's sake don't get started on a new problem when your nerves are all in shreds. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• To her, what hurts becomes immediately embodied: she looks on it as a thing that can be attacked, worried down, torn in shreds. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Little Dorrit had finished a long day's work in Mrs Clennam's room, and was neatly gathering up her shreds and odds and ends before going home. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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