Stool
[stuːl] or [stʊl]
解释:
(noun.) a simple seat without a back or arms.
(noun.) (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings.
(verb.) have a bowel movement; 'The dog had made in the flower beds'.
(verb.) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers.
(verb.) react to a decoy, of wildfowl.
(verb.) lure with a stool, as of wild fowl.
辛迪校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
(v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
(n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
(n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
(n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
(n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
(n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
(n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
(n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
手打:朱迪
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Seat (without a back).[2]. Discharge (from the bowels), evacuation.[3]. [Local, U. S.] Decoy-bird.
赫克托整理
解释:
n. a seat without a back: a low bench for the feet or for kneeling on: the seat used in evacuating the bowels: the act of evacuating the bowels also that which is evacuated: a root of any kind from which sprouts shoot up: a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened as a decoy for wild birds.—n. Stool′-pi′geon a decoy-pigeon: a gambler's decoy.—Stool of repentance same as Cutty-stool (q.v.).—Fall between two stools to lose both of two things between the choice of which one was hesitating.
整理:劳拉
例句:
- This he placed in the middle of the floor and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Fat or thin, laughing or melancholy, on horseback or the music-stool, it was all the same to the Major. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- And there sat Madame Fosco, like a quiet child, on a stool by his side, making cigarettes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Old Tiffey, for the first time in his life I should think, was sitting on somebody else's stool, and had not hung up his hat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- In deep dejection Mr. Snagsby sits down on his stool, with his back against his desk, protesting, I never had a secret of my own, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The little boy jumped clean from the stool. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- He finds that nothing agrees with him so well as to make little gyrations on one leg of his stool, and stab his desk, and gape. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Adele brought her stool to my feet; ere long she touched my knee. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The bottom of chest and top of stool are covered with green cloth, so as to make a tolerably air-tight joint. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The Doctor was sitting in his easy-chair by the fireside, and his young wife was on a stool at his feet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- To be sure--to be sure,' said the man with the camp-stool indignantly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- She had seated herself on a low stool against her husband's knee. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I mastered the rising hysteria, lifted up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You are bound to kick him on the spot,' murmured the owner of the camp- stool, with great importance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Of these trees I made two stools, each about three feet high, and strong enough to bear my weight. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Before the coming of bronze there is no evidence of stools or tables; the Neolithic people probably squatted on their clay floors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The people having received notice a second time, I went again through the city to the palace with my two stools in my hands. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Inside the cave, Robert Jordan sat on one of the rawhide stools in a corner by the fire listening to the woman. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- When used for transportation of troops, it will accommodate a company of infantry seated on camp stools or benches. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Both hail Mr. George with acclamations as an old friend and after some kissing and romping plant their stools beside him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- What were Ducking Stools? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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