Oyster
['ɒɪstə] or ['ɔɪstɚ]
解释:
(noun.) marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters.
(noun.) a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl.
(verb.) gather oysters, dig oysters.
录入:玛丽埃塔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.
(n.) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
校对:劳伦斯
解释:
n. a well-known bivalve shellfish used as food.—ns. Oys′ter-bank -bed -farm -field -park a place where oysters breed or are bred; Oys′ter-catch′er the sea pie—a sea wading bird of the family H鎚atopodid? having dark plumage and red bill and feet; Oys′ter-fish′ery the business of catching oysters; Oys′ter-knife a knife for opening oysters.—n.pl. Oys′ter-pat′ties small pies or pasties made from oysters.—n. Oys′ter-shell the shell of an oyster.—n.pl. Oys′ter-tongs a tool used to dredge up oysters in deep water.—ns. Oys′ter-wench -wife -wom′an a woman who vends oysters.
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娱乐性解释：
If you dream that you eat oysters, it denotes that you will lose all sense of propriety and morality in your pursuit of low pleasures, and the indulgence of an insatiate thirst for gaining. To deal in oysters, denotes that you will not be over-modest in your mode of winning a sweetheart, or a fortune. To see them, denotes easy circumstances, and many children are promised you.
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娱乐性解释：
n. A slimy gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.
手打:柴门霍夫
例句:
- Now how did those masses of oyster-shells get there? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Everything was gone, down to the little mirror with the oyster-shell frame. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The Japanese produce them by fastening a piece of mother-of-pearl in the shells of the pearl-oyster and allowing it to remain there for a number of years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They were clean, nice oyster shells, large, and just like any other oyster shells. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of an oyster. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners'--a local sweetmeat--he presented an oyster-knife at the twins! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- An oyster has no taste for such things; he cares nothing for the beautiful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Or a oyster,' added the third, who was a hoarse gentleman, supported by very round legs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The hill might have been the bottom of the sea, once, and been lifted up, with its oyster-beds, by an earthquake--but, then, how about the crockery? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Among the oyster-shells were mixed many fragments of ancient, broken crockery ware. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Look here, sir; here's a oyster-stall to every half-dozen houses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- As he said it, he glanced from the cod-fish to the oyster-barrels, and chuckled joyously. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Then suddenly he cried: 'Pussum, you can't eat oysters when you're drinking brandy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Time for your oysters! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- To keep oysters stir into them 3 ounces of the solution (cold) to each gallon of oysters. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The most natural conclusion would be that the oysters climbed up there to look at the scenery. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It's a wery remarkable circumstance, Sir,' said Sam, 'that poverty and oysters always seem to go together. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Gerald watched her eating the oysters. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- 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.
- Within a few years some valuable methods of keeping meats, fish, oysters, fruits, fruit juices, milk, butter, etc. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- What I mean, sir,' said Sam, 'is, that the poorer a place is, the greater call there seems to be for oysters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The high temperature to which they are exposed necessarily causes a loss of flavor, and it is generally remarked that tinned oysters are not a success. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- An't yer fond of oysters? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- There is also a Jamaica pigeon, also just cooked here, and a _vol au vent_, which I have had made from oysters which were sent open in the preserving stuff from Jamaica. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
校对:马蒂