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词汇 crazy quilt
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Definition of crazy quilt in English:

crazy quilt

nounˈkreɪzɪ ˌkwɪltˈkreɪzi ˌkwɪlt
  • 1A patchwork quilt of a type traditionally made in North America, with patches of randomly varying sizes, shapes, colours, and fabrics.

    百衲被(原产于北美,用不同尺寸、形状、颜色和织物的布片随意拼成的棉被)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the floor of the sitting room is a late nineteenth-century hooked rug reminiscent of crazy quilts.
    • Quilt lovers prize eye-catching quilts such as crazy quilts, log cabins, and Baltimore album quilts.
    • My friend Joan, a wonderful quilter of crazy quilt handbags & other art pieces, has this to say to your question.
    • Occasionally a cotton crazy quilt is seen, where scraps of fabrics in a myriad of cotton prints are used to cover the quilt top.
    1. 1.1 A disorganized collection of things.
      colonial America was a crazy quilt of laws
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a crazy quilt of architecture built up over centuries with different styles at different moments.
      • Still, the film is a startling document for its time, and in its crazy quilt of themes could be screened credibly in a festival of avant-garde films.
      • District managers, however, are faced with a crazy quilt of funding streams for purposes that match the district's strategic priorities only by happenstance, if at all.
      • The masked areas form a crazy quilt of tan and blue lines - the colors of the two varieties of tape we use - and brown paper, used here and there to cover the white areas we have already prepared.
      • Many take advantage of a crazy quilt of regulations that often allows them to skirt legal oversight.
      • The big challenge is to come up with a program that stitches together today's crazy quilt of storage systems.
      • The pattern of voting equipment usage across the United States is a demographic crazy quilt.
      • It is a philosophical crazy quilt made from the sheets of our ‘wrecked romance with God.’
      • America here is presented as a play of reflections, its image a crazy quilt of the accumulated slights, projections and unrealizable longings of those outside its borders.
      • The land between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming, offers a crazy quilt of textures and colors.
      • It is hamstrung by a crazy quilt patchwork of warring state commissions, sanctioning bodies, and dubious fight contracts.
      • They soon may be decorated with the crazy quilt of sponsors' logos that transforms racecar drivers into billboards.
      • The tiny squares change from red to green, depending on whether each stock is down or up, creating a crazy quilt of winners and losers.
      • This is not a linear, academic study but a living, breathing crazy quilt.

Definition of crazy quilt in US English:

crazy quilt

nounˈkreɪzi ˌkwɪltˈkrāzē ˌkwilt
  • 1A patchwork quilt of a type traditionally made in North America, with patches of randomly varying sizes, shapes, colors, and fabrics.

    百衲被(原产于北美,用不同尺寸、形状、颜色和织物的布片随意拼成的棉被)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Occasionally a cotton crazy quilt is seen, where scraps of fabrics in a myriad of cotton prints are used to cover the quilt top.
    • Quilt lovers prize eye-catching quilts such as crazy quilts, log cabins, and Baltimore album quilts.
    • My friend Joan, a wonderful quilter of crazy quilt handbags & other art pieces, has this to say to your question.
    • On the floor of the sitting room is a late nineteenth-century hooked rug reminiscent of crazy quilts.
    1. 1.1 A disorganized collection of things.
      colonial America was a crazy quilt of laws
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They soon may be decorated with the crazy quilt of sponsors' logos that transforms racecar drivers into billboards.
      • The tiny squares change from red to green, depending on whether each stock is down or up, creating a crazy quilt of winners and losers.
      • The big challenge is to come up with a program that stitches together today's crazy quilt of storage systems.
      • Still, the film is a startling document for its time, and in its crazy quilt of themes could be screened credibly in a festival of avant-garde films.
      • Many take advantage of a crazy quilt of regulations that often allows them to skirt legal oversight.
      • America here is presented as a play of reflections, its image a crazy quilt of the accumulated slights, projections and unrealizable longings of those outside its borders.
      • District managers, however, are faced with a crazy quilt of funding streams for purposes that match the district's strategic priorities only by happenstance, if at all.
      • This is not a linear, academic study but a living, breathing crazy quilt.
      • The pattern of voting equipment usage across the United States is a demographic crazy quilt.
      • The land between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming, offers a crazy quilt of textures and colors.
      • It is a philosophical crazy quilt made from the sheets of our ‘wrecked romance with God.’
      • It is hamstrung by a crazy quilt patchwork of warring state commissions, sanctioning bodies, and dubious fight contracts.
      • It's a crazy quilt of architecture built up over centuries with different styles at different moments.
      • The masked areas form a crazy quilt of tan and blue lines - the colors of the two varieties of tape we use - and brown paper, used here and there to cover the white areas we have already prepared.
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