Ass
[æs]
解释:
(noun.) hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse.
(noun.) a pompous fool.
克莱德编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.
(n.) A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt.
伊诺克校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Jackass, donkey.[2]. Dolt, fool, blockhead, simpleton, numskull, ninny, DUNCE.
整理:雷蒙德
解释:
n. a well-known quadruped of the horse family: (fig.) a dull stupid fellow.—Asses' bridge or Pons asinorum a humorous name for the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid.
手打:雷克斯
娱乐性解释：
To see an ass in a dream, you will meet many annoyances, and delays will accrue in receiving news or goods. To see donkeys carrying burdens, denotes that, after patience and toil, you will succeed in your undertakings, whether of travel or love. If an ass pursues you, and you are afraid of it, you will be the victim of scandal or other displeasing reports. If you unwillingly ride on one, or, as jockey, unnecessary quarrels may follow. See Donkey.
编辑:曼纽尔
娱乐性解释：
n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City Nevada he is called the Washoe Canary in Dakota the Senator and everywhere the Donkey. The animal is widely and variously celebrated in the literature art and religion of every age and country; no other so engages and fires the human imagination as this noble vertebrate. Indeed it is doubted by some (Ramasilus lib. II. De Clem. and C. Stantatus De Temperamente) if it is not a god; and as such we know it was worshiped by the Etruscans and if we may believe Macrobious by the Cupasians also. Of the only two animals admitted into the Mahometan Paradise along with the souls of men the ass that carried Balaam is one the dog of the Seven Sleepers the other. This is no small distinction. From what has been written about this beast might be compiled a library of great splendor and magnitude rivalling that of the Shakespearean cult and that which clusters about the Bible. It may be said generally that all literature is more or less Asinine.
校对:伍德罗
例句:
- He is not quite such an ass as I have hitherto supposed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was almost as amusing to the Victorian English as the story of Balaam's ass. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Oh, what an ass I have been! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- As to Twemlow, he is so sensible of being a much better bred man than Veneering, that he considers the large man an offensive ass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- My dear Rosy, you don't expect me to talk much to such a conceited ass as that, I hope, said Lydgate, brusquely. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He is the greatest ass in the world. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- He is an ass, and I am an invalid, and we are likely to make all sorts of mistakes between us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I shall have finished my travels. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Did Judy really think you could bring yourself to marry that portentous little ass? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- But what in the name of the devil is your ass of a coachman keeping us here for? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- In Rome the _proletarii_ were a voting division of fully qualified citizens whose property was less than 10,000 copper asses (= ?275). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A thousand pardons, Mr. Hartright; servants are such asses, are they not? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- What a set of consummate asses you are, said Argyle to Beckford and his party; and then quietly continued on the gate, whistling as before. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We rode on asses and mules up the steep, narrow streets and entered the subterranean galleries the English have blasted out in the rock. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The word sestertius signifies two asses and a half. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- At Rome all accounts appear to have been kept, and the value of all estates to have been computed, either in asses or in sestertii. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Such ASSES as he and Ma make of themselves! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Ye know, also, that when mosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In Penzance, then a town of about three thousand inhabitants, and in its picturesque vicinity, the early years of Davy's life were p assed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
编辑:罗赞娜