Laurel
['lɒr(ə)l] or ['lɔrəl]
解释:
(noun.) (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory.
(noun.) United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965).
(noun.) any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
录入:费尔普斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
(n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.
(n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
弗兰克编辑
解释:
n. the bay-tree used by the ancients for making honorary wreaths: a crown of laurel honours gained (freq. in pl.): any species of the genus Laurus.—adjs. Lau′rel; Lau′relled crowned with laurel.—n. Lau′rel-wa′ter a sedative and narcotic water distilled from the leaves of the cherry-laurel.—adjs. Laurif′erous producing laurel; Lau′riger laurel-wearing.—n Laurustī′nus an evergreen shrub.
编辑:思朋斯
娱乐性解释：
Dreaming of the laurel, brings success and fame. You will acquire new possessions in love. Enterprises will be laden with gain. For a young woman to wreath laurel about her lover's head, denotes that she will have a faithful man, and one of fame to woo her.
整理:洛厄尔
娱乐性解释：
n. The laurus a vegetable dedicated to Apollo and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (Vide supra.)
伯娜丁整理
例句:
- This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Here are their marks on the left--here, beside the laurel bushes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- A mass of shrubs, full-leaved evergreens, laurel and dense yewintervened between me and what I followed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Moisten the leaves with a solution of the opium extract in the cherry-laurel water. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- As of yore, the laurel wreath. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Laurel crowns cure no aching head, but the gentle kiss of a loved wife in time of trouble is indeed balm in Gilead. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I was not angry on my own account, but I felt as if the praises which this idol received were leaves torn from laurels destined for Adrian. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- A wreath of artificial laurels, for, indeed, your song is but worthy of such. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The Professor conquered, but I cannot say that the laurels of this victory shadowed gracefully his temples. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The song was considered a great success, and the singer retired covered with laurels. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Are his laurels straight? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Nor was Podder behindhand in earning laurels wherewith to garnish himself and Muggleton. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Through the gate--now to the right among the laurels. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
录入:内丽