Ruby
['ruːbɪ] or ['rubi]
解释:
(noun.) a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
(noun.) a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers.
录入:曼蒂--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
(n.) See Agate, n., 2.
(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
(v. t.) To make red; to redden.
编辑:维尔玛
解释:
n. a pure transparent red-coloured corundum inferior in hardness to the diamond only among gems: redness anything red: (her.) the tincture red or gules: (print.) a type smaller than nonpareil and larger than pearl—5?points in the new system: the red bird of Paradise: the ruby hummer of Brazil.—adj. red.—v.t. to make red:—pa.t. and pa.p. ru′bied.—adj. Ru′bied (Shak.) red as a ruby.—n. Ru′bine (Spens.) same as Ruby.—adj. Ru′bious (Shak.) ruby red ruddy.—ns. Ru′by-blende a clear red variety of zinc sulphide: ruby silver; Ru′by-tail a gold-wasp or cuckoo-fly.—adj. Ru′by-throat′ed like a humming-bird with a ruby gorget.—ns. Ru′by-tī′ger a British moth; Ru′by-wood red sandalwood.—Rock ruby a ruby-red garnet.
格伦录入
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a ruby, foretells you will be lucky in speculations of business or love. For a woman to lose one, is a sign of approaching indifference of her lover.
整理:罗伯塔
例句:
- Blood's the word, said James, gulping the ruby fluid down. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Here and there polished surfaces of ruby, emerald, and diamond patched the golden walls and ceiling. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The ruby owes its fine red color to the presence of oxide of chromium; the sapphire its deep blue to either a lower oxide of chromium or to an oxide of titanium. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- A bright red spot appeared on its smooth surface, like a ruby on Parian marble. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Again she looked at the ring, it was a small ruby, almost heart-shaped, which she had herself given him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Sapphire is of the same material, differing from the ruby only in color. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- To be distinguished from synthetic gems are reconstructed stones, which (as yet only done with the ruby) are pieces of the natural stone fused together. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The ruby, chemically considered, is crystallized alumina, or oxide of aluminum, with a small percentage of oxide of chromium. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The average weight of the native Burmese ruby is about one-eighth of a carat. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This is wonderful-' It was a round opal, red and fiery, set in a circle of tiny rubies. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Rubies have been thus produced weighing twelve to fifteen carats when cut. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The process of manufacture of rubies is carried on with the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe, to whose intense heat the powdered alumina with its coloring oxides is subjected. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- He had gold and silver, diamonds and rubies, riches of every kind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I can imagine to myself such a city as the New Jerusalem, whose pavement is gold and walls are rubies, though I never saw any such. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- A diamond all set round with rubies; that's a gentleman's, I hope! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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