hairlike
hairlike — 形容詞
- hairlikepositive
- more hairlikecomparative
- most hairlikesuperlative
1. very thin and long, looking similar to a single piece of hair — used for fibres,
毛髮狀的
細長像一根頭髮的
very thin and long, looking similar to a single piece of hair — used for fibres, cracks, lines, or tiny structures such as the roots that pull water into a plant.
Under the microscope, Mateo saw thousands of hairlike roots reaching out from the seedling.
在顯微鏡下，Mateo 看到幼苗長出數千條毛髮狀的根。
attributive: hairlike + noun (roots)
A hairlike crack ran across the bedroom window after the small earthquake last night.
昨晚那場小地震後，臥室窗戶上出現了一道細如髮絲的裂縫。
common collocation: hairlike crack
The artist drew hairlike lines on the bird's wing to show every feather.
畫家在鳥的翅膀上畫出細如髮絲的線條，描繪每一根羽毛。
Adaeze pulled a hairlike fibre off her wool sweater and studied it carefully.
Adaeze 從她的羊毛衣上拉下一條毛髮狀的纖維，仔細端詳。
Thin hairlike wires inside the old radio were almost too small to see.
舊收音機裡的毛髮狀細電線小到幾乎看不見。
- threadlike
very close in meaning; slightly more common in everyday English
- filamentous
more technical; common in biology and physics
- fine
broader; can describe thin things that don't look much like hair
文法句型
hairlike + noun
用法筆記
Almost always used before a noun (attributive). Common with small, thin physical things — roots, cracks, fibres, wires, lines — not with people's actual hair.