Egg
[eg] or [ɛɡ]
解释:
(noun.) animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds.
(noun.) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
(verb.) coat with beaten egg; 'egg a schnitzel'.
(verb.) throw eggs at.
编辑:塔比瑟--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
(n.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
(n.) Anything resembling an egg in form.
(v. t.) To urge on; to instigate; to incite/
安塞姆校对
同义词及近义词:
n. Ovum.
整理:莉莲
解释:
n. an oval body laid by birds and certain other animals from which their young are produced: anything shaped like an egg.—ns. Egg′-app′le or plant the brinjal or aubergine an East Indian annual with egg-shaped fruit; Egg′-bird a sooty tern; Egg′-cō′sy a covering put over boiled eggs to keep in the heat after being taken from the pot: Egg′-cup a cup for holding an egg at table; Egg′er Egg′ler one who collects eggs; Egg′ery a place where eggs are laid; Egg′-flip a hot drink made of ale with eggs sugar spice &c.; Egg′-glass a small sand-glass for regulating the boiling of eggs; Egg′-nog a drink compounded of eggs and hot beer spirits &c.; Egg′-shell the shell or calcareous substance which covers the eggs of birds; Egg′-slice a kitchen utensil for lifting fried eggs out of a pan; Egg′-spoon a small spoon used in eating eggs from the shell.—A bad egg (coll.) a worthless person; Put all one's eggs into one basket to risk all on one enterprise; Take eggs for money to be put off with mere promises of payment; Teach your grandmother to suck eggs spoken contemptuously to one who would teach those older and wiser than himself; Tread upon eggs to walk warily to steer one's way carefully in a delicate situation.
v.t. to instigate.
编辑:特鲁迪
娱乐性解释:
To dream of finding a nest of eggs, denotes wealth of a substantial character, happiness among the married and many children. This dream signifies many and varied love affairs to women. To eat eggs, denotes that unusual disturbances threaten you in your home. To see broken eggs and they are fresh, fortune is ready to shower upon you her richest gifts. A lofty spirit and high regard for justice will make you beloved by the world. To dream of rotten eggs, denotes loss of property and degradation. To see a crate of eggs, denotes that you will engage in profitable speculations. To dream of being spattered with eggs, denotes that you will sport riches of doubtful origin. To see bird eggs, signifies legacies from distant relations, or gain from an unexpected rise in staple products.
录入:基思
娱乐性解释:
A wholesome, yet fowl, product, of no use until broken. Sometimes a cure for indigestion or bad acting.
布伦特校对
例句:
- Such being done, place your ventilator first, egg drawer next, and tank last. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shaped, and the end of the handle was rounded, without the notch. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- That was the cot of _my_ infancy; an old egg-box. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was like something coming out of an egg. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Ham and eggs or eggs with cheese? 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Caliphronas, touching neither coffee nor tea, drank water only, and confined his eating to bread, honey, and eggs. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- He had birds' eggs, young birds, and the honey and honeycomb of wild bees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Obeying these impulses, he had become the husband of Perdita: egged on by them, he found himself the lover of Evadne. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
手打:普里西拉