dotting是什么意思？

dotting

• v. 打( dot的现在分词 )，布满，分布各处，以小圆点标出；

例句

• The teacher mentioned the matter without dotting the i but everyone present knew what he meant. 老师并未明确指出那件事,但在场的每个人都知道他所指的是什么.
• The women in red shirts are with necked - back and dotting in the classical garden. 红裙女子,赤裸背影,散落在古典的庭院里.
• She was dotting the wall with red paint. 她用红漆在墙上打点.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  点;小点;小圆点
  A dot is a very small round mark, for example one that is used as the top part of the letter 'i', as a full stop, or as a decimal point.
• N-COUNT
  (因距离远而看起来)似小点之物，点状物
  You can refer to something that you can see in the distance and that looks like a small round mark as a dot .
  例句
  Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon. 很快他们就成了地平线上的几个小点了。
• VERB
  散布于;星罗棋布于;遍布
  When things dot a place or an area, they are scattered or spread all over it.
  例句
  Small coastal towns dot the landscape. 这一地区滨海小镇星罗棋布。
• PHRASE
  准时地;按指定时间
  If you arrive somewhere or do something on the dot, you arrive there or do it at exactly the time that you were supposed to.
  例句
  They appeared on the dot of 9.50 pm as always... 他们和往常一样在晚上9点50分准时出现。 At nine o' clock on the dot, they have breakfast. 他们在 9 点钟准时吃早饭。
• PHRASE
  (在耗时且无关紧要的事情上)一丝不苟，注重细节
  If you say that someone dots the i's and crosses the t's, you mean that they pay great attention to every small detail in a task; often used to express your annoyance because such detailed work seems unnecessary and takes a very long time.
• PHRASE
  很久以前
  The year dot is used to mean a very long time ago.
  例句
  You've wanted to be a barrister since the year dot. 很久以前你就一直想成为一名辩护律师了。