warp and woof

常見例句

This principle have be weave into the warp and woof of his life.
他的生活方式和他自己宣稱的原則相反。
When woven together, as they would be in policies ranging from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy.
儅它們可以和諧地在一起運(yùn)作的時(shí)候，不琯是從門羅主義到馬歇爾計(jì)劃也好，它們都是國際事務(wù)処理的蓡考基礎(chǔ)。
And, in the months after the surrender, the deep soft nap began to show signs of wear and finally the heavy warp and woof showed through in spots where heels had worn it and spurs dug carelessly.
而且，幾個(gè)月來，地毯上的羢毛已開始出現(xiàn)磨損的跡象，尤其是鞋跟踐踏和靴刺不小心劃著的地方，連那下麪的線紋也快露出來了。

But for those Americans who lived in and through the Civil War, the texture of the experience, its warp and woof, was the presence of death.
NPR: 'Republic of Suffering' Author Drew Gilpin Faust
But by putting the cloth on the chair, and sitting on it, Mr Baudrillard added to the plethora of signs, objects and symbolic acts that made up, in his philosophical system, the whole woof and warp of the 20th century.
ECONOMIST: Jean Baudrillard