Checker

(noun.) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers.

(noun.) one who checks the correctness of something.

(noun.) an attendant who checks coats or baggage.

(verb.) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns.

校对:瓦珥

• She often says, when the letter is first opened, 'Well, Hetty, now I think you will be put to it to make out all that checker-work'don't you, ma'am? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Four chambers, C, E, E′, C′, are filled with fire brick loosely stacked with spaces between, in checker-work style. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Mother, please say that I am to go, urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was bare and cool, with a table covered with a coarse checkered cloth and adorned by a bottle of pickles and a blueberry pie under a cage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

校对:塔玛拉