Slate

(noun.) (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate.

(noun.) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices.

(noun.) a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers.

(noun.) thin layers of rock used for roofing.

(verb.) designate or schedule; 'He slated his talk for 9 AM'; 'She was slated to be his successor'.

(verb.) cover with slate; 'slate the roof'.

(verb.) enter on a list or slate for an election; 'He was slated for borough president'.

杰克逊整理

• In disproof of which superfluous remark Sir Leicester has indignantly written on the slate, I am not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We were laughing over it when all of a sudden his eye _was_ on us, and he ordered Susie to bring up her slate. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The table is then pushed under a huge grinding machine and the slate surface is made plane, as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can make it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They were of darkened red brick, brittle, with dark slate roofs. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The slate comes into requisition again, but the word he wants to write he cannot remember. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Its belly was white, and its legs shaded from the slate of its shoulders and hips to a vivid yellow at the feet. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• But that isn't a good word: he didn't tell them to write on slates. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Who could live to gaze from day to day on bricks and slates who had once felt the influence of a scene like this? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated houses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The roof of the chapel did _not_ fly off, which speaks volumes in praise of its solid slating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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