用法:
1 [U] type of needlework in which small pieces of cloth with different designs are sewn together 花布拼缝物:
[attrib 作定语] a patchwork bedcover, cushion, quilt, etc 杂拼花布床罩、 垫子、 棉被等.

用法:
2 [sing] thing made of various small pieces or parts 拼凑的东西:
a patchwork of fields seen from an aeroplane 从飞机上俯瞰的块块田地.

• the Industrial Revolution
• the inevitable
• the Infinite
• the infirm
• the initiated
• the insane
• the insured
• their
• the Iron Age
• the Iron Curtain
• theirs
• theism
• theist
• theistic
• the jet set
• the jitters
• the Jolly Roger
• the just
• the kiss of life
• the Labour Party
• the Lake District (also the Lakes)
• the Last Judgement
• the last post
• the last rites
• the Last Supper