Cavendish
['kæv(ə)ndɪʃ] or ['kævəndɪʃ]
解释:
(noun.) British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810).
录入:泰茜--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
编辑:沃伦
解释:
n. tobacco moistened and pressed into quadrangular cakes.
手打:威利
例句:
- I had imagined that we were bound for Baker Street, but Holmes stopped the cab at the corner of Cavendish Square. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Getting on The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, were received by the Chief Butler. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Cavendish obtained nitrogen from air by using nitric oxide to remove the oxygen, and found that air consists of about seventy-nine per cent nitrogen and about twenty-one per cent oxygen. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was more than aware of Mr and Mrs Merdle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- At the sa me time other ranks of society are represented in the history of science by Boyle, Cavendish, Lavoisier. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Cavendish had shown, and Dalton himself later prove d, that common air, wherever examined, contains oxygen and nitrogen in fairly co nstant proportions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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