Dutch
[dʌtʃ]
解释:
(noun.) the West Germanic language of the Netherlands.
(noun.) the people of the Netherlands; 'the Dutch are famous for their tulips'.
(adj.) of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture; 'Dutch painting'; 'Dutch painters' .
编辑:特伦斯--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) The people of Holland; Dutchmen.
(n.) The language spoken in Holland.
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解释:
adj. belonging to Holland or its people—in old writers rather applied to the Germans: heavy clumsy as in Dutch-built -buttocked &c.—n. Dutch′man a native of Holland.—Dutch auction courage tiles (see Auction Courage Tile); Dutch carpet a mixed material of cotton and wool for floor coverings; Dutch cheese a small round cheese made on the Continent from skim-milk; Dutch clinkers a hard brick for paving stables &c.; Dutch clover white clover; Dutch concert a concert in which singers sing their various songs simultaneously or each one sings a verse of any song he likes between bursts of some familiar chorus; Dutch drops a balsam or popular nostrum of oil of turpentine tincture of guaiacum &c.; Dutch liquid an oily substance obtained by mixing chlorine and olefiant gases—not miscible with water readily dissolving in ether and alcohol producing anéŽ thesia; Dutch metal sometimes called Dutch gold or Dutch leaf is an alloy of copper and zinc; Dutch oven (see Oven); Dutch pink (see Pink); Dutch rush the scouring-rush; Dutch wife an open frame of rattan or cane used in the Dutch Indies to rest the limbs upon in bed.—Talk like a Dutch uncle to rebuke with kindness.
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例句:
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The Dutch fleet, frozen in the Texel, surrendered to a handful of cavalry without firing its guns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is a curious fact that in the Edison family the pronunciation of the name has always been with the long e sound, as it would naturally be in the Dutch language. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He sat down again instantly, and asked for a little drop of comfort out of the Dutch bottle. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- For he assured me, that if the secret should be discovered by my countrymen the Dutch, they would cut my throat in the voyage. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- In Europe, if the French, who are white people, should injure the Dutch, are they to revenge it on the English, because they too are white people? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Next came two Dutch prints which Mr. Toller had been eager for, and after he had secured them he went away. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But being neglected by Sweden, it was soon swallowed up by the Dutch colony of New York, which again, in 1674, fell under the dominion of the English. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Incidentally this would also have drowned most of the Dutch harvest and cattle. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The southeastern fringe of it spoke French dialects; the bulk, Frisian, Dutch, and other Low German languages. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In the expression forlorn hope we have made the Dutch word hoop meaning a company into hope. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Bowling, as we know today, is an indoor adaptation of, and an improvement upon, the old Dutch game of nine-pins. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The Dutch settlement here formed gradually grew into a town called New Amsterdam, which in 1648 had 1,000 inhabitants. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be sometimes heard in Dutch clocks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
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