Unfold

(verb.) spread out or open from a closed or folded state; 'open the map'; 'spread your arms'.

(verb.) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; 'Unfold the newspaper'; 'stretch out that piece of cloth'; 'extend the TV antenna'.

(verb.) open to the view; 'A walk through town will unfold many interesting buildings'.

手打:奥斯伯特

• Now, unfold it and tell me what it is. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Accident has made him the starting-point of the strange family story which it is the purpose of these pages to unfold. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Goethe had the power to call up at will the form of a flower, to make it change from one color to another and to unfold before his mind's eye. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He saw it and secured it quickly, but as he went back to his inn he had no eagerness to unfold the paper. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He unfolded a paper and laid it upon the table. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• This tale, therefore, shall be rapidly unfolded. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,' said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He unfolded the rough chart, which I here reproduce, GRAPHIC and he laid it across Holmes's knee. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It's wrote on gilt-edged paper,' said Sam, as he unfolded it, 'and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door key. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Then he unfolded his arms, and held her encircled in one for an instant: 'You do well! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Life at any stage short of attainment of this goal is merely an unfolding toward it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He sends--I really beg your pardon--he sends, says Sir Leicester, selecting the letter and unfolding it, a message to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The risk would remain even with close knowledge of Lydgate's character; for character too is a process and an unfolding. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The teaching of history, as we are unfolding it in this book, is strictly in accordance with this teaching of Buddha. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The control is from behind, from the past, instead of, as in the unfolding conception, in the ultimate goal. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Come, Peggy, said Jo, unfolding herself like an animated puzzle. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Development is conceived not as continuous growing, but as the unfolding of latent powers toward a definite goal. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In the new world of invention mind has breathed into matter, and a new and expanding creation unfolds itself. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Mortimer stares at him, and unfolds the paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For Jove unfolds the hospitable door, 'Tis Jove that sends the strangers and the poor. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Perhaps we can raise it again and follow the hints it unfolds. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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