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词汇 woodshed
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Definition of woodshed in English:

woodshed

noun ˈwʊdʃɛdˈwʊdˌʃɛd
  • A shed where wood for fuel is stored.

    柴棚,木柴间

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Half an hour later Hitomi found herself inside a woodshed in a corner; her legs and hands were tied.
    • During the day my sister and I would play in the tall grasses, or watch grandpa building something in his woodshed.
    • Completing the arrangement of domestic buildings is the woodshed, a building that was vital for the fires that both warmed the house and cooked the food.
    • I also suggest he leaves the axe in the woodshed when he next looks for a lobster.
    • He always lived in strangers' unheated woodsheds and in return would herd their geese and cows.
    • Harry decided we were not worth further consideration, gathered up his prize and took himself off behind the woodshed.
    • The woman led Alex out a back door and to a woodshed.
    • Three hours later the woodshed had acquired a doorcase in strict neoclassical style, with pilasters, triglyphs, and a cornice, and he was looking positively pleased with himself, as he rolled off up the hill to face the music.
    • The woodshed is the size of a single-car garage.
    • She led him to the woodshed, where a candle burned just bright enough to catch the fine wisps of steam rising from the freshly warmed bathwater.
    • I fancy Sir Arthur Throckmorton would have seen the joke, when after four centuries a carpenter found his diary, all three volumes of it - in a woodshed.
    • Those are now hung to dry in the woodshed until it is time to bring them indoors, and use them, decked with huge scarlet bows, as Christmas decorations.
    • I raced outside and into the woodshed, where I cried till I was wrung dry and empty.
    • Feeling inadequate, Marc offered to go the woodshed and restore the wood pile beside the fireplace.
    • Gussie went crazy and I had to put him into a little run that Jane and her brother had constructed in back of the woodshed.
    • They were disarmed and piled up in the woodshed like the evil that they were.
    • This has given me ample opportunity to perfect my carpentry skills: Just as I finish building rabbit hutches, chicken coops and woodsheds, I have to start again at a new location.
    • Kennedy felt like he was on a trip to the woodshed.
    • A motley collection of bones and antlers is nailed to the woodshed.
    Synonyms
    hut, lean-to, outhouse, outbuilding, shack
verb ˈwʊdʃɛdˈwʊdˌʃɛd
[no object]usually as noun woodsheddinginformal
  • 1(of a musician) practise in private.

    〈非正式〉(音乐人)私下练习

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And evidently this time apart allowed the two to approach their partnership rejuvenated and ready for some serious woodshedding, as they reportedly recorded dozens of tracks before pruning down to these relatively lean 14 songs.
    • The trivia point about that is, he ‘woodshedded’ that song.
    • Many students may need to be introduced to effective practice methods such as repetition, playing with a metronome, woodshedding and visualization.
    • Who's going to bother with a couple of years of guitar lessons and woodshedding if he can go to a store and grab a couple of turntables for less than the price of a nice tweed guitar case nowadays?
    • You get a taste of the frustration, the liquor laced woodshedding, the comfort Wilco had with it's finished product and the confusing world of audio technology.
    1. 1.1 Improvise or harmonize spontaneously.
      即兴表演;即兴为…配和声

Phrases

  • something nasty in the woodshed

    • informal A shocking or distasteful thing that has been kept secret.

      〈英,非正式〉内心的隐痛,精神创伤

      heartbreak, confusion, and something nasty in the woodshed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Well and here is the hook… and it's a real good one: ‘I saw something nasty in the woodshed.’
      • It turns out there is something rather nasty in the woodshed.
      • In the book there was something nasty in the woodshed, Roy and Judy Page have something nasty in their garage.
      • You had been mad since you saw something nasty in the woodshed, years and years and years ago.
      • It is the story of a family not so much bound by love and shared experience as by the knowledge that at least one of them saw something nasty in the woodshed.
      • Perhaps there is something nasty in the woodshed?
  • take someone to the woodshed

    • dated, informal Reprove or punish someone.

      〈美,非正式,旧〉(尤指慎重地)训斥某人;惩罚某人

      if you miss the call, you get taken to the woodshed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If Mosley gets past Wright, who looked less than stimulating in his last, he'll take Trinidad to the woodshed.
      • They was gonna take him to the woodshed but then they let him off the hook.
      • For these remarks, DeBerry was taken to the woodshed by the head of the Academy, and then, all but wearing sackcloth and ashes, he offered an abject apology for being ‘hurtful to many people.’
      • Most of you were entertained, some were info-tained, but a couple of readers took me to the woodshed.
      • It's now time to take him to the woodshed for a good old-fashioned whipping.

Definition of woodshed in US English:

woodshed

nounˈwo͝odˌSHedˈwʊdˌʃɛd
  • A shed where wood for fuel is stored.

    柴棚,木柴间

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Feeling inadequate, Marc offered to go the woodshed and restore the wood pile beside the fireplace.
    • I also suggest he leaves the axe in the woodshed when he next looks for a lobster.
    • She led him to the woodshed, where a candle burned just bright enough to catch the fine wisps of steam rising from the freshly warmed bathwater.
    • The woman led Alex out a back door and to a woodshed.
    • Kennedy felt like he was on a trip to the woodshed.
    • Those are now hung to dry in the woodshed until it is time to bring them indoors, and use them, decked with huge scarlet bows, as Christmas decorations.
    • The woodshed is the size of a single-car garage.
    • Completing the arrangement of domestic buildings is the woodshed, a building that was vital for the fires that both warmed the house and cooked the food.
    • I raced outside and into the woodshed, where I cried till I was wrung dry and empty.
    • I fancy Sir Arthur Throckmorton would have seen the joke, when after four centuries a carpenter found his diary, all three volumes of it - in a woodshed.
    • Gussie went crazy and I had to put him into a little run that Jane and her brother had constructed in back of the woodshed.
    • This has given me ample opportunity to perfect my carpentry skills: Just as I finish building rabbit hutches, chicken coops and woodsheds, I have to start again at a new location.
    • He always lived in strangers' unheated woodsheds and in return would herd their geese and cows.
    • During the day my sister and I would play in the tall grasses, or watch grandpa building something in his woodshed.
    • They were disarmed and piled up in the woodshed like the evil that they were.
    • A motley collection of bones and antlers is nailed to the woodshed.
    • Harry decided we were not worth further consideration, gathered up his prize and took himself off behind the woodshed.
    • Half an hour later Hitomi found herself inside a woodshed in a corner; her legs and hands were tied.
    • Three hours later the woodshed had acquired a doorcase in strict neoclassical style, with pilasters, triglyphs, and a cornice, and he was looking positively pleased with himself, as he rolled off up the hill to face the music.
    Synonyms
    hut, lean-to, outhouse, outbuilding, shack
verbˈwo͝odˌSHedˈwʊdˌʃɛd
[no object]informal
  • Practice a musical instrument.

    he's off woodshedding again
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many students may need to be introduced to effective practice methods such as repetition, playing with a metronome, woodshedding and visualization.
    • Who's going to bother with a couple of years of guitar lessons and woodshedding if he can go to a store and grab a couple of turntables for less than the price of a nice tweed guitar case nowadays?
    • You get a taste of the frustration, the liquor laced woodshedding, the comfort Wilco had with it's finished product and the confusing world of audio technology.
    • The trivia point about that is, he ‘woodshedded’ that song.
    • And evidently this time apart allowed the two to approach their partnership rejuvenated and ready for some serious woodshedding, as they reportedly recorded dozens of tracks before pruning down to these relatively lean 14 songs.

Phrases

  • something nasty in the woodshed

    • informal A shocking or distasteful thing that has been kept secret.

      〈英,非正式〉内心的隐痛,精神创伤

      heartbreak, confusion, and something nasty in the woodshed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Well and here is the hook… and it's a real good one: ‘I saw something nasty in the woodshed.’
      • Perhaps there is something nasty in the woodshed?
      • You had been mad since you saw something nasty in the woodshed, years and years and years ago.
      • It is the story of a family not so much bound by love and shared experience as by the knowledge that at least one of them saw something nasty in the woodshed.
      • It turns out there is something rather nasty in the woodshed.
      • In the book there was something nasty in the woodshed, Roy and Judy Page have something nasty in their garage.
  • take someone to the woodshed

    • dated, informal Reprove or punish someone.

      〈美,非正式,旧〉(尤指慎重地)训斥某人;惩罚某人

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If Mosley gets past Wright, who looked less than stimulating in his last, he'll take Trinidad to the woodshed.
      • For these remarks, DeBerry was taken to the woodshed by the head of the Academy, and then, all but wearing sackcloth and ashes, he offered an abject apology for being ‘hurtful to many people.’
      • It's now time to take him to the woodshed for a good old-fashioned whipping.
      • Most of you were entertained, some were info-tained, but a couple of readers took me to the woodshed.
      • They was gonna take him to the woodshed but then they let him off the hook.
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