sketching [机] 草图
Sketch \Sketch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sketched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sketching}.] [Cf D. schetsen, It. schizzare. See {Sketch},
n.]
1. To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought
of.
2. To plan or describe by giving the principal points or
ideas of.
Syn: To delineate; design; draught; depict.
- He envisioned designing tall buildings but instead landed a job sketching popcorn machines.
- If people found out you were sketching them and didn't like it, you took your life in your hands.
- And there he is out in the open, sketching with charcoal, his subjects lifting their jackets high enough for Newton and the rest of Dallas to see their posteriors.
- They sat down on a log and began sketching with a piece of paper and a pencil Meitner had in her purse.
- Hezza the Prezza, as he is now affectionately known, will be sketching his blueprint for Britain's industrial revival on an exotic island somewhere in the South Pacific.
- Beautiful!" he exclams, sketching PRI organizational charts on a piece of paper.
- The music never takes two minutes to describe what it could in one, sketching the characters deftly, painting the mood with a flick of the brush, a few glinting colours enough to suggest the danger lurking in the fairy-tale forest before the murder.