Bucket
['bʌkɪt]
解释:
(noun.) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top.
(noun.) the quantity contained in a bucket.
(verb.) carry in a bucket.
(verb.) put into a bucket.
整理:特蕾西--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
(n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
(n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
(n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
校对:马奇
解释:
n. a vessel for drawing or holding water &c.; one of the compartments on the circumference of a water-wheel or one of the scoops of a dredging-machine: the leather socket for holding the whip in driving or for the carbine or lance when mounted: a name given to the pitcher in some orchids.—ns. Buck′etful as much as a bucket will hold; Buck′eting (U.S.) jerky rowing; Buck′et-shop slang term for the offices of 'outside brokers'—mere agents for bets on the rise or fall of prices of stock &c.; Buck′et-wheel a contrivance for raising water by means of buckets attached to the circumference of a wheel.—Give the bucket to dismiss; Kick the bucket (slang) to die.
整理:玛丽
例句:
- Why, it's Bucket! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Not by Mr. Bucket? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Mr. Bucket, satisfied, expresses high approval and awaits her coming at the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Yes, said Mr. Bucket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Mr. Bucket asks, conveying the expression of an artist into the turn of his eye and head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Especially in your elevated station of society, miss, says Mr. Bucket, quite reddening at another narrow escape from my dear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Just inside the open end of the oven the floor was scooped out so as to make a hole that would hold a bucket or two of water. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- In poorer houses, water is laboriously carried in buckets from the spring or is lifted from the well by the windlass. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Into this there is delivered by the endless chain of buckets shown on the left a continuous stream of a special free-flowing concrete mixture. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The steel buckets scoop up the material at the bottom of the ladder, which they then ascend, and are discharged by becoming inverted at the upper end of the ladder. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Some of these are of the clam-shell type, some employ the scoop and lever, others an endless series of buckets. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- All the blind men's dogs in the streets draw their masters against pumps or trip them over buckets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In plastics there are brick machines, pressed glass ware, enameled sheet iron ware, tiles, paper buckets, celluloid and rubber articles. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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