Rivet

(noun.) heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together.

(verb.) hold (someone's attention); 'The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists'.

(verb.) fasten with a rivet or rivets.

编辑:卢克

• Here is the rivet of your mistress's spectacles out. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• There is no one particular spot to chain your eye, rivet your interest, and make you think. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• For our desire is bent that way, and anything which has the flavor of this new interest will rivet our attention. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Mr. Frank Churchill, I must tell you my mother's spectacles have never been in fault since; the rivet never came out again. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• A rivet-making machine forms the rivet, and shapes the head to the requisite size, with great accuracy and quickness. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Another part of the room soon riveted her gaze. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• At the moment, however, we had no thought for the old chest, for our eyes were riveted upon that which crouched beside it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• As for me, every word was a new heap of fetters, riveted above the last. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• After I ceased there was tense silence, as all eyes were riveted upon Tal Hajus. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The total weight of iron in the structure is about 7,000 tons, the weight of the rivets alone being 450 tons, and the total number of them 2,500,000. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Now flowed forth, as from some Vulcan's titanic workshop, machines for making bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, chains, staples, car wheels, shafts, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But, he was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring, and the rivets of the iron ring held tight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Ship building is hastened by these same air drilling and riveting machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1809, David Mead Randolph of England patented machinery for riveting soles and heels to the uppers instead of sewing them together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

整理:利亚