Splice

splice



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接合

【口】結婚



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–verb (used with object) 

1. to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands. 

2. to unite (timbers, spars 圓杆翼樑, or the like) by overlapping and binding their ends.  



3. to unite 

(film, 

magnetic tape, or the like) by butting (接合) and cementing.  



4. to join or unite. 

5. Genetics. to join (segments of DNA or RNA) together. 

6. Informal. to unite in marriage: 



They'll be splic[ed] in June.  



–noun 

7. a joining of two ropes or parts of a rope by splicing. 

8. the union or junction made by splicing. 

9. a joining or junction of two pieces of timber, spar, etc., by overlapping and fastening the ends. 

10. a joining of film, electromagnetic tape, or the like.  



—Idiom

11. splice the main brace, Nautical. 

a. to issue a ration (配給量) of spirits, as grog (烈酒), to all hands. 

b. to drink spirits. (烈酒)





　

TV helmer Tom Hooper, best known [Stateside] for the Hilary Swank starrer "Red Dust" and HBO's "Elizabeth I," directs with [smooth] economy, focusing on the thesps. Period detail is effective on an obvious budget, 



and splicing of Broadbent 

[into] 

color TV broadcasts is well done. 





alimony & [p]alimony

celibate

which includes the kind of [graphic] descriptions of improbable sex acts 

that [guys] sometimes [indulge in] while killing vast amounts of [celibate time]. 

consummate

[That night] at the beachhouse they consummated their [marriage].

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