Bushel
['bʊʃ(ə)l] or ['bʊʃəl]
解释:
(noun.) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches.
(noun.) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks.
伊莱恩整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
(n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
(n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
(n.) A large indefinite quantity.
(n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Four pecks, eight gallons, thirty-two quarts.
塞西尔编辑
解释:
n. a dry measure of 8 gallons for measuring grain fruit &c.
v.t. and v.i. (U.S.) to mend or alter as men's clothes.—ns. Bush′eller; Bush′elling; Bush′el-wom′an.
录入:纳塔莉亚
例句:
- It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- A barrel of herrings is supposed to require about one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel foreign salt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Nice unslaked lime, 1/2 bushel; slake it with boiling water; cover it during the process to keep in the steam. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- It is said that the self-binding reaper has reduced the cost of harvesting grain to less than half a cent a bushel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Tenpence was then reckoned what is called the moderate and reasonable price of a bushel of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Outer doors of chambers are shut up by the score, messages and parcels are to be left at the Porter's Lodge by the bushel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- That about the price of wheat per bushel, I modestly felt was too much for my strength, and quite settled the question. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I have never, to this hour, got the better of that bushel of wheat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Sixteen shillings, therefore, was the price of two quarters and more than three bushels of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- At the rate of twenty-eight shillings the quarter, one-and-twenty shillings is in the present times the price of six bushels only. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Commixtion is the blending of two bodies, such as two bushels of corn, where the parts remain separate in an obvious and visible manner. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- They will change inches into feet, pounds into bushels, and do other stunts that would make the average schoolboy envious when it comes to arithmetic. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Two bushels are the supposed average of Scotch salt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Of the 360,000,000 bushels of wheat raised last year I suppose more than 300,000,000 was winter wheat. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Vessels have been designed for this purpose with a capacity of gathering oysters from good ground at the rate of 5,000 bushels per hour. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I smell roses, till I think I see the rose-leaves lying in heaps, bushels, on the floor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- No fewer than six hundred wagons came clattering in, and as many as twenty sail vessels were loaded with thirty-five thousand bushels of grain, during a single day. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The exports of wheat to foreign lands in 1898 were 148,231,261 bushels, worth $145,684,659, and the exports of wheat flour for the same year were 15,349,943 barrels, worth $69,263,718. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- One apple-raiser in this district gathered two hundred bushels of apples per acre from his six-year-old trees. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Two crops in the year, from thirty to sixty bushels each, are said to be the ordinary produce of an acre. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The total yield of wheat in the United States for 1898 was 675,148,705 bushels. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- At the rate of six shillings and eightpence the quarter, ten shillings was in those ancient times the price of twelve bushels of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Bounty as before ? 0 14 11? But if to this bounty, the duty on two bushels of Scotch salt, at 1s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
录入:万斯