wattle
wattle 英 ['wɒt(ə)l] 美 ['wɑtl]
n. 板条，编条；[林] 金合欢树；枝条编成的篱笆 adj. 板条的；由编条做成的 vt. 用编条做成
进行时:wattling 过去式:wattled 过去分词:wattled 第三人称单数:wattles 名词复数:wattles
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- n. 板条，编条；[林] 金合欢树；枝条编成的篱笆
- adj. 板条的；由编条做成的
- vt. 用编条做成
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1. wattle – the floral emblem of Australia – has proved a huge problem for South Africa.
金合欢树（澳大利亚的植物象征）给南非带来了严重问题。
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2. They wove branches and wattle—wooden lattice—between the posts and filled the enclosure with logs, branches, soil and clay.
他们把树枝和板条编织在桩子上作为木质承重格栅，然后用原木、树枝、泥巴和陶土将其填满。
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3. Houses were rapidly erected; most of them consisted of posts stuck in the ground, interwoven with twigs of wattle trees, and then daubed over with mud.
房子很快建了起来，大多数的房子是把柱子插入土地，用金合欢树的树枝编连，外面再涂满泥。
- wattle (n.1) "stakes interlaced with twigs and forming the framework of the wall of a building," Old English watol "hurdle," in plural "twigs, thatching, tiles," related to weðel "bandage," from Proto-Germanic *wadlaz, from PIE *au- (3) "to weave" (see weeds). Surviving in wattle-and-daub "building material for huts, etc." (1808).
- wattle (n.2) "fleshy appendage below the neck of certain birds," 1510s (extended jocularly to human beings, 1560s), of uncertain origin and of doubtful relationship to wattle (n.1). Related: Wattled.
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