Parchment

(noun.) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on.

(noun.) a superior paper resembling sheepskin.

录入:劳伦斯

• A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Sign there, he repeated, turning suddenly on Laura, and pointing once more to the place on the parchment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Until that time books had to be written upon parchment or papyrus, and after the Arab conquest of Egypt Europe was cut off from the papyrus supply. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Here it is,' said Fogg, handing over a square book, with a parchment cover. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The confined room, strong of parchment-grease, is warehouse, counting-house, and copying-office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My own convictions led me to believe that the hidden contents of the parchment concealed a transaction of the meanest and the most fraudulent kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They do not seem to have had paper or to have used parchment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We refuse to sanction these indentures,' said the old gentleman: tossing aside the piece of parchment as he spoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The sheepskin was fresh dried and not tanned and as Robert Jordan rested his stocking feet on it he could feel it crackle like parchment. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He danced about us and tapped the parchment with his finger: What I tell you, genteelmen! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He lifted up the parchment, and struck it angrily on the table. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• One was to obtain your signature to the parchment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Beg your pardon, Mr. Pickwick,' said Jackson, deliberately depositing his hat on the floor, and drawing from his pocket the strip of parchment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Meanwhile Sir Percival unlocked a cupboard beneath one of the book-cases, and produced from it a piece of parchment, folded longwise, many times over. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The promise to pay so much silver or gold on leather (= parchment) with the seal of some established firm is probably as old or older than coinage. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:托妮