tesserae

美 ['tes?ra?] 　英 ['tes?ra?]

• n.鑲嵌物；(古希臘人、古羅馬人用木頭、象牙等做的)代幣，紀(jì)念品，骰子，標(biāo)記
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)入場券；嵌塊；鑲嵌片

詞形變化

復(fù)數(shù)：tesserae  

英漢解釋

n.	1. 鑲嵌物 2. 【羅史】(骨,象牙,木頭等做的)入場券[證];骰子;標(biāo)記

英英解釋

n.	1. a small square of stone, tile, or glass used to make a mosaic 2. a piece of bone or wood that was used in ancient Greece and Rome as a dice, tally, or ticket

例句

Mosaic pieces, or tesserae, are usually small squares, triangles, or other regular shapes.

馬賽克塊通常是小方形、三角形或其它規(guī)則形狀。

It is thought that the mosaic was made by North African artists because some of the tesserae (pieces for the mosaic) are African.

據(jù)稱，馬賽克是由北非的藝術(shù)家所制作的，因為其中的一些鑲料（馬賽克的部件）是非洲出產(chǎn)的。