Plum
[plʌm]
解释:
(noun.) a highly desirable position or assignment; 'a political plum'.
(noun.) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit.
(noun.) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone.
弗朗辛校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
(n.) A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
(n.) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.
霍华德编辑
解释:
n. a well-known stone fruit of various colours of the natural order Rosace: the tree producing it: the best part of all: a sum of ?00 0 a handsome fortune.—ns. Plum′-cake a cake containing raisins currants &c.; Plum′-duff a flour-pudding boiled with raisins.—adj. Plum′my full of plums: desirable.—ns. Plum′-porr′idge an antiquated dish of porridge with plums raisins &c.; Plum′-pudd′ing a national English dish made of flour and suet with raisins currants and various spices.
戈代娃手打
娱乐性解释：
Plums, if they are green, unless seen on trees, are signs of personal and relative discomfort. To see them ripe, denotes joyous occasions, which, however, will be of short duration. To eat them, denotes that you will engage in flirtations and other evanescent pleasures. To gather them, you will obtain your desires, but they will not prove so solid as you had imagined. If you find yourself gathering them up from the ground, and find rotten ones among the good, you will be forced to admit that your expectations are unrealized, and that there is no life filled with pleasure alone.
录入:雷蒙
娱乐性解释：
A fruit that ripens and falls from the Political Tree—but only after careful grafting.
编辑:塔比瑟
例句:
- Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- They'll make you sick, says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Then out ran Miss Bradley, like a large, soft plum in her dark-blue suit. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Please not a seed-cake, but a plum-cake. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Roast beef and plum-pudding for every one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Against cakes: how cakes are bad things, especially if they are sweet and have plums in them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It is needless to say that all the caveats are not quite so full of plums, but this is certainly a wonder. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
整理:萨莎