单词 | cardboard |
释义 | ˈcardboard [f. card n.2 + board.] a. Pasteboard of the thickness of card, for cutting cards from, or for making boxes and the like. Also attrib. in cardboard box, etc.
1848A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. xviii. 325 The pencil..leaves an impression upon card-board that no amount of rubbing can efface. 1858in Simmonds. 1863Wynter Subtle Brains 309 The rooms in which the portraits are gummed on cardboard and packed up. 1879Print. Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 16 They are printed on stout, fine cardboard. b. fig. (attrib. or as adj.). Unsubstantial, unreal, ‘pasteboard’.
1893Jrnl. Soc. Arts XLI. 476/1 When his cardboard empire of the East fell to pieces. 1927J. Deval (title) Her Cardboard Lover. 1952Illustrated 6 Dec. 8 The cardboard family that has become larger than life. |

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