(noun.) any process serving to define the shape of something.
埃莉整理
双语例句
As for sitting still, and learning from the past, or shaping out the future by faithful work done in a prophetic spirit--Why! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
No, only the trade of cutting gems and shaping mirrors. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The demand for continuous attention is greater, and more intelligence must be shown in selecting and shaping means. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
My responsibility began and ended with shaping her instructions into the proper legal form. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
The next slight touch in the shaping of Clym's destiny occurred a few days after. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
But Lizzie, with her lips only, shaping the two words, 'Her father,' he delayed no longer. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
That great inventor of labour-saving machinery had then designed machines for the shaping and making of gun stocks and for forming the accompanying parts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
My imagination was busied in shaping forth the kind of death he would inflict. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
We interchanged that confidence without shaping a syllable. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The notion that a pupil operating with such material will somehow absorb the intelligence that went originally to its shaping is fallacious. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
True, the turning-lathe, the axe, the hammer, the chisel, the saw, the auger, the plane, the screw, and cutting and other wood-shaping instruments in simple forms existed in abundance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
All its highest and best qualities have been revealed to me in nothing more brightly than in the shaping out of that future in which I am so happy. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Whoever is bent upon shaping politics to better human uses must accept freely as his starting point the impulses that agitate human beings. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.