checkered
['tʃekəd]
a. 盛衰常, 波, 花, ...错着, 端

[] 网纹板[钢板]

1. A checkered career.
   满波
2. A family with a checkered past.
   着波族
3. The lawn was checkered with sunlight and shade.
   草坪影错图案。

checkered
[ adj ]

1. patterned with alternating squares of color

<adj.all>

2. marked by changeable fortune

<adj.all>
a checkered business career

Checkered \Check"ered\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd), a.
1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color
or material.

Dancing in the checkered shade. --Milton.

2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in
appearance, character, circumstances, etc.; as, a
character with a checkered past

This checkered narrative. --Macaulay.


Checker \Check"er\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Checkered} (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Checkering}.]
[From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. ['e]chiquier. See
{Check}, n., and cf. 3d {Checker}.]
1. To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by
crossing stripes of different colors.

2. To variegate or diversify with different qualities,
colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent
alternations of prosperity and adversity.

Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and
falsehood. --Addison.