a long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious 冗长的文章;长篇演说
[mass noun]a levelled layer of material (e.g. cement) applied to a floor or other surface (地面或其他表面)材料涂层(如水泥) ■[count noun]a strip of plaster or other material placed on a surface as a guide to thickness 抹灰靠尺(在表面上抹灰时用以确定厚度)
语源
Middle English: probably a variant of the noun shred. The early sense was 'fragment cut from a main piece', then 'torn strip, tatter', whence (via the notion of a long roll or list) sense 1