Berry
['berɪ] or ['bɛri]
解释:
(noun.) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves.
(noun.) United States rock singer (born in 1931).
(noun.) a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry).
(verb.) pick or gather berries; 'We went berrying in the summer'.
安吉拉校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
(n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
(n.) The coffee bean.
(n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
(v. i.) To bear or produce berries.
(n.) A mound; a hillock.
德威特编辑
解释:
n. a popular term for any small succulent fruit but restricted in botanical language to simple fruits with pericarp succulent throughout whether developed from superior (grape potato bitternut belladonna bryony asparagus tomato) or more commonly inferior ovary (gooseberry currant barberry bilberry &c.)—thus strictly the strawberry raspberry blackberry are not berries.—v.i. to come into berry to swell.—adj. Ber′ried bearing berries.
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例句:
- Not many an English leaf or berry that I couldn't name. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I berry much spect Missis be anxious 'bout Jerry. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Berry nice man, dat Mas'r Jones was. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Suddenly, the atmosphere was impregnated with the odour of the Indian berry, which grew in immense quantities around me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- From the rich cluster that filled a small basket held in her hand she severed a berry and offered it to his lips. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The green wilderness nurses her, and becomes to her a mother; feeds her on juicy berry, on saccharine root and nut. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- My face, neck, and hands, from unaccustomed exposure to the air and sun, were burnt to a berry-brown. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- They saw the golden lights of the hotel glowing out in the night of snow-silence, small in the hollow, like a cluster of yellow berries. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- They were comforted by seeing some birds, and later on by finding a pole worked with tools, and a branch with strange berries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path; and I again went out in search of berries. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- We must get some berries, or Clym will never believe in our preparations. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The terrestrial species is confined to the centra l part of the group; it is smaller than the aquatic species, and feeds on cactus, leaves of trees, and berries. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- We have enough berries now, I think, and we had better take them home. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- After being on the train for several months, I started two stores in Port Huron--one for periodicals, and the other for vegetables, butter, and berries in the season. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I wants to go there and be berried. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Dorothea drove along between the berried hedgerows and the shorn corn-fields, not seeing or hearing anything around. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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