Rag

(noun.) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students).

(noun.) a small piece of cloth or paper.

(noun.) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities.

(verb.) break into lumps before sorting; 'rag ore'.

(verb.) play in ragtime; 'rag that old tune'.

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• Let him 'ware them, when no man can't find a rag of his dear relation's clothes, nor yet a bone of his body. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It's very bad poetry, but I felt it when I wrote it, one day when I was very lonely, and had a good cry on a rag bag. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Thoroughly clean the article from all grease and dirt (see polishing preparations, page 12), and apply with a soft rag or brush and polish with a chamois skin. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• In fact, he lodges at a-- Mr. Snagsby makes another bolt, as if the bit of bread and buffer were insurmountable --at a rag and bottle shop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Halliday wore tweeds and a green flannel shirt, and a rag of a tie, which was just right for him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I'm dreadfully in debt, and it won't be my turn to have the rag money for a month. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Principally rags and rubbish, my dear friend! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The cat leaped down and ripped at a bundle of rags with her tigerish claws, with a sound that it set my teeth on edge to hear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is mainly wood pulp that has enabled books and newspapers to be made so cheaply, for they are now furnished at a less price than the cost of the paper made in the old way from rags. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I should think they had,' exclaimed Mr. Weller, surveying his companion's rags with undisguised wonder. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The rags from which the paper is made undergo a variety of processes before they are properly reduced into a state of pulp. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• After that there was no sign, but the path ran right on into Ragged Shaw, the wood which backed on to the school. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He was still ragged and squalid, but his face was not quite so hollow as on his first meeting with Mr. Pickwick, a few days before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• And he smeared his ragged rough sleeve over his eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When I saw him in the light, I observed, not only that his hair was long and ragged, but that his face was burnt dark by the sun. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She was dressed in a single filthy, ragged garment, made of bagging; and stood with her hands demurely folded before her. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Here he is, very muddy, very hoarse, very ragged. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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