Canvas

(noun.) a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents).

(noun.) the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; 'the boxer picked himself up off the canvas'.

(noun.) an oil painting on canvas fabric.

(noun.) the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; 'the crowded canvas of history'; 'the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound'.

(verb.) cover with canvas; 'She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks'.

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• Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• A single suit of her sails consisted of 15,563 yards of canvas. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I don't quite know, ma'am,' said Oliver, without taking his eyes from the canvas; 'I have seen so few that I hardly know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The grass was lush underfoot after the pineneedle floor of the forest and the dew on the grass wet through their canvas rope-soled shoes. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• These pictures are all battle scenes, and only one solitary little canvas among them all treats of anything but great French victories. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The superficies yields to the soil, says the civil law: The writing to the paper: The canvas to the picture. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The reasoning is perilously like that of the gifted lady amateur who expects to achieve greatness by imitating the paint box and palette, oils and canvases of an artist. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There were a dozen easels in the room, and as many artists transferring the great picture to their canvases. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Probably no organized piece of machinery has ever been so systematically exploited, so thoroughly advertised, so persistently canvassed, and so extensively sold as the sewing machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In those days, this matter of slavery had never been canvassed as it has now; nobody dreamed of any harm in it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He had canvassed eagerly for this post. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We think so very differently on this point, Mr. Knightley, that there can be no use in canvassing it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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