| 词组 | weave |
| 释义 | weave When weave is used in its literal senses ("weave cloth," "weave a basket"), its usual past tense and past participle are wove and woven; • ... people who wove their homespun clothes — American Guide Series: North Carolina, 1939 • The nest was woven of grass tucked into a slight depression —Dr. Henry Marion Hall, Massachusetts Audubon, June 1968 The same inflected forms are normally used in straightforward figurative applications of weave: • ... Thomson wove together folk dances, waltzes, marches ... , and original tunes —Current Biography, October 1966 • ... values and perceptions long woven into the fabric of society —Osborn Elliot, One Nation Divisible (published speech), November 1969 But when weave describes a winding course of movement ("weave down the field"), the form that usually serves as both its past tense and past participle is weaved: • The men ... weaved through the grass —Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 1948 • ... Russian and U.S. delegates ... have weaved through a maze of procedural and technical arguments —Time, 17 Mar. 1947 These observations are not hard and fast rules by any means, but they do reflect the practice usual among current writers. |
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