| 单词 | balsa wood |
| 例句 | “Good balsa wood isn’t so easy to come by these days, Colonel. I just didn’t think it was a good idea to pass up the chance to buy it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You know, balsa wood would be perfect for the seesaws—it’s really easy to cut. I think my dad might even have some.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z In a birdcage by the window, a green parakeet, the last surviving member of my grandparents’ former aviary, was moving back and forth on its balsa wood perch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Balsa wood? What are the mess halls going to do with balsa wood?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Weary had a block of balsa wood which was supposed to be a foxhole pillow. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I carved the model out of balsa wood, and painted it in red and white racing colors. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1940s a German biologist fashioned a mechanical model of a pterosaur from balsa wood, wire, tissue paper and a rubber-band motor, and flew it at a professional conference. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z A toy bus from Carolina Herrera, and a balsa wood D.I.Y. airplane complete with airsickness bag from Louis Vuitton, that seemed to symbolize a time when we were free to travel without thought. Artifacts of the Lost Year 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Richmond uses silver, balsa wood, paper and sometimes pearls. Jewelry exhibition is witty, wordy, all by women 2013-02-16T23:50:28Z In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl sailed from Peru to the Polynesian islands on a simple balsa wood raft. Heyerdahl film sets sail to Toronto 2012-09-06T07:18:34Z Working in a community called El Refugio, artisans carve and paint balsa wood to create colorful fish, birds, frogs and turtles. Explorer: On the Solentiname Islands in Nicaragua, an Eden With Art 2012-03-02T23:25:09Z Axel liked making model airplanes out of balsa wood and tissue. Double Solitude 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “Da Vinci’s Workshop: The Art of Flight” will engage children 4 and older in studying his work and making their own flying machines from materials like balsa wood and cardboard. Spare Times for Children Listings for March 4-10 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Once when I pressed him, he described working on the new novel as like wrestling sheets of balsa wood in a high wind. In search of David Foster Wallace's Pale King 2011-04-08T09:17:13Z Lynn kept the look minimal and organic by forgoing clunky ornaments and decorating the Fraser fir with burlap ribbon and paper cones filled with balsa wood flowers. Elegant Christmas Dinner Party 2011-12-12T19:20:07.153Z Mr. Dornan has the bland affect of a model, by which I mean a figure made of balsa wood or Lego. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z His books are built of balsa wood, but they are beautifully constructed all the same. Books of The Times: Carl Hiaasen’s ‘Bad Monkey’ Features a Cast of Oddballs 2013-06-17T20:34:20Z To the baseline challenge of his dizzyingly dense phrases, Mr. Brooks adds the task of maneuvering sheets of balsa wood, one for each of the piece’s six performers. Review: Brian Brooks Moving Company Keeps Things Off-Center at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z As a hobby he produced a fanciful menagerie of intricate paperboard and balsa wood sculptures of animals. Irving Harper, Creator of the Marshmallow Sofa, Dies at 99 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And Karla Black's pastel powder creations bring the sense of smell to her vast constructions of paper and plastic through the use of balsa wood, moisturizer and nail varnish. Favorite Martin Boyce scoops UK's Turner Prize 2011-12-05T21:09:26Z With the help of 3D software, a piece of balsa wood and a hobby knife, he constructed his first miniature farm scene. Miniacs Live in a Small, Small World 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z A rickety, balsa wood bus trundled on, then fell apart like a cheap circus prop. Why we need Iron Maiden for the Olympics 2010-03-25T14:58:00Z Jordan’s response: "If he did that to me, I'd snap his neck like a twig of dried balsa wood." Jim Jordan and Donald Trump's dumb week reminds us: MAGA "tough guys" are cowards at heart 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Mike Flusche, a fellow wrestler around the same time, said he remembers hearing Jordan’s “balsa wood” comment. The sexual abuse scandal that haunts Trump's pick for House speaker 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z “Going through my brain were suitable expletives. I hit the brakes, by which time it was too late, it was like balsa wood flying absolutely everywhere.” Another Day, Another Crash: Life by Britain’s Most Bashed Bridge 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z He laid out the physics hurdles of such an epic voyage and even crafted a prototype spacecraft from poster board, balsa wood, and Elmer’s glue. ‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe mysterious region beyond our Solar System 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z It often involves getting rid of oils, chemicals and plastics, before you even get to the hull - layers of polyester resin that can be mixed with balsa wood and foam. Boats: Call for rules to stop old vessels being dumped 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z "My mother gave me her grandfather's hammer and some nails and I had some very soft wood called balsa wood so I'd hammer nails into it and make sculptures," he said. Boy carpenter's Ukraine bowl raffle smashes target 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z "The Britannia Shipping Company drops you off round the Isle of Wight. I'll be in a nice white nightie and they wrap you in a balsa wood coffin and weight it." Obituary: June Brown 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Guided by laser markings, the crew is lining the sides with panels of balsa wood. Will War Make Europe’s Switch to Clean Energy Even Harder? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Built from balsa wood and hobby shop tires, it was just 15 inches long. It looks like the Batmobile, works on solar energy, and could be the future of cars They are a sandwich composed of fiberglass, sheets of balsa wood and a chemical called an epoxy thermoset resin. New Wind Turbine Blades Could be Recycled Instead of Landfilled 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z “Then I started making things out of balsa wood because it’s easy to carve. My dad is a hobby carpenter, so I guess the influence always made me feel handy.” Artist gives life to Belgian boot-scrapers during pandemic 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Supplies of balsa wood, a major component of wind turbine blades, became scarce this spring because about 95 percent of it comes from Ecuador, which was overwhelmed by the pandemic. How the Virus Slowed the Booming Wind Energy Business 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z It was 36 inches long, constructed out of fiberboard, balsa wood and copper at the dining room table of their Alexandria home. Perspective | How do you lose a bridge? It’s easy when it’s only 36 inches long. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Another roads policing officer called the vehicle a "homemade electric motorcycle" which was "made from bits of balsa wood and duck tape". 'Most unusual' vehicle stopped on M25 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z It had balsa wood gliders, some of the latest radio-controlled cars, planes, and the parts to keep many early and older models running. One of Southland’s last model and hobby shops will close because of rising rent 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z A student uses a soldering iron to build the solar panel, which is attached to the balsa wood sculpture. Kinetic sculptures and sound circuits: building solar-powered art at Pioneer Works 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Once, it suggests, we lived in better, slower times, and the only way to revisit them today is with great concentration and ingenuity, and tweezers and balsa wood and glue. Shrinking the world: why we can't resist model villages 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Teams of workers gradually fill a mold with strips of fiberglass interlaced with balsa wood for strength. Windmills with blades as long as a jumbo jet’s wingspan are making clean energy mainstream 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Several hundred layers of fibreglass and balsa wood are being tucked into giant moulds by hand. Wild is the wind: the resource that could power the world 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Enabled by new innovations in balsa wood surfboards that had opened new vistas to surfers in the 1940s, they returned again and again, despite the risks. See Vintage Color Photos of Surfers in Hawaii in 1963 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Others were made of balsa wood and were more triangular in shape. Kinetic sculptures and sound circuits: building solar-powered art at Pioneer Works 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In 1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl sailed the balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki from the Peruvian coast to Polynesia to advocate his idea the region was colonized from the east by descendants of the Incas. Fantastic Voyage: Polynesian Seafaring Canoe Completes Its Globe-Circling Journey 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Gustafson first began carving with balsa wood, which he purchased in Lincoln. 94-year-old crane carver continues creating after 20 years 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z We then discovered a local rocketry club and started building and flying bigger rockets we made out of cardboard and balsa wood with plastic nose cones and little thin plastic parachutes. From zero gravity to Ride & Tie: the quirky hobbies of the tech elite 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Later, he started crafting small balsa wood models of those same houses. Retired teacher builds miniature version of Indiana town 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z The rafts are made of balsa wood, a tree species lighter than cork and native to the Americas. Kon-Tiki2: Why would you cross the Pacific on a wooden raft? - BBC News 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z In competitions a solid lance is normally used, but in choreographed events and historical shows knights use a lance with a balsa wood end, which shatters for dramatic effect. Lance encounters: Why do people risk death jousting? - BBC News 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z It was far more than just a facade of balsa wood and foam core. Chanel wants you to dress like a bistro waiter this fall. It’s actually a good idea. 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z While the cars are cut from a block of balsa wood and powered by a gas canister, the technology applied to them is sophisticated. 'F1 in Schools' a class act for budding boffins 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In 1967, the eraser was celebrated by the artist Vija Celmins, who produced a series of painstakingly crafted Pink Pearl sculptures from balsa wood, shaped and painted to look just like the real thing. The stories behind five stationery icons 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Last year the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering shipyard in South Korea experimented with suits that let workers walk around carrying 65-pound slabs of metal like they were balsa wood. Robotic Exoskeletons Giving (and Gaining) Support 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z There's no doorman, no signs, no carpets and the rooms in this dark warren appear to be partitioned by sheets of balsa wood. The eclectic, electric collective 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z To begin, Jack’s team simply played with the balsa wood, breaking it, cutting it, thinking about how to put the pieces together. Norwood School embraces Odyssey of the Mind 2013-05-21T20:27:40Z Then, his first prosthetic leg was made of balsa wood with plastic laminate; today they contain carbon fiber, titanium and microprocessors. War and Sports Shape Better Artificial Limbs 2013-04-18T00:53:20Z He loved model making even as a child and spent six months in 1944 assembling a battleship from balsa wood. Malcolm Morley Opens the Parrish Art Museum’s New Home 2012-11-25T01:38:56Z The drones that Schmale and his team use are made from balsa wood or fiberglass and are powered by an electric motor. Nonmilitary drones take to the skies in larger numbers 2012-09-10T20:40:48Z There are tiny models striding about his studio desk and a fat beam above, doll-size furniture made from foam and wire, paper and balsa wood. Designer Takeshi Miyakawa Returns From Rikers Island 2012-06-07T03:27:17Z One of the many mysteries about the Jupiter-like planets being found around other stars is why their density is so low—some are as fluffy as styrofoam or balsa wood. Magnetoastrocoolness: How Cosmic Magnetic Fields Shape Planetary Systems 2012-01-13T16:15:05.427Z They stayed put until Monday morning, except for the one who left to visit a hobby shop and returned with balsa wood, glue, carving tools and silver paint. Holden Withington, Last Living B-52 Designer, Dies at 94 2011-12-17T21:27:23Z Their car is built from balsa wood and powered by a compressed air canister. Balsa wood car carries UK's mini F1 hopes 2011-03-16T09:23:18Z As a teenager, he loved building model airplanes from balsa wood and tissue paper and flying them in indoor competitions. Charles H. Kaman, Helicopter Innovator, Dies at 91 2011-02-03T02:50:01Z Nelson gets giddy when asked about the balsa wood, shoebox-sized car, rattling off statistics about gear ratios and turn ratios. Teenage Girl Tops White House Super Bowl Honors: Scott Soshnick 2011-02-02T02:23:34Z Hasselbeck is a consummate pro with who has had an outstanding career, but he could snap like balsa wood at any time. The Fifth Down: Saturday's N.F.L. Wild-Card Matchups 2011-01-06T16:30:27Z He became interested in rocketry as a teenager and constructed balsa wood missiles filled with a rudimentary propellant of powder from shotgun shells and glue. Rocket scientist Robert C. Truax dies at 93 2010-09-29T15:40:00Z Our contemporary fondness for them probably began with the Kon-Tiki expedition, an acclaimed mission led by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl who sailed from Peru to Polynesia in a balsa wood raft in 1947. Captain Bligh sets sail again ? for charity 2010-04-26T19:00:00Z He grabs the disintegrator just as I belt him over his ugly noggin with a wrench about two feet long and which was certainly not made of aluminum or balsa wood. Operation Earthworm A canoe formed from the trunk of a large tree, generally cedar or balsa wood. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. They were made of light balsa wood, which is very buoyant. On the Banks of the Amazon These are rafts made of light balsa wood, so buoyant as to be used in coasting voyages. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America |
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