Trinket
['trɪŋkɪt]
解释:
(n.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
(v. t.) A knife; a cutting tool.
(v. t.) A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.
(v. t.) A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
(v. i.) To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue.
手打:威特
同义词及近义词：
n. Toy, bawble, knicknack, gewgaw, gimcrack, JIGGUMBOB.
法耶手打
解释:
n. a small ornament for the person: anything of little value.—v.i. to deal in a mean and underhand way: to intrigue.—ns. Trink′eter a mean intriguer; Trink′etry trinkets collectively.
n. a topsail.
n. a vessel to drink out of.
手打:诺娜
例句:
- Pinner says she's always about your trinket-box and drawers, and everybody's drawers, and she's sure she's put your white ribbing into her box. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Why every trinket you have on your body is paid for by me. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Have you nothing of papa's--no trinket, no gift of his? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She was answered by having a small trinket-box placed before her, and being requested to chuse from among several gold chains and necklaces. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Caroline wore continually round her neck a slender braid of silk, attached to which was some trinket. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- A cross is the last thing I would wear as a trinket. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It contained papers, love-letters many years old--all sorts of small trinkets and woman's memoranda. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She--she's sent me back some things I gave her--some damned trinkets. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Having replaced these trinkets, the Jew took out another: so small that it lay in the palm of his hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- She bethought herself of the trinkets which had been left on the ground and felt certain that the woman had fled. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She could not even go out and sell her trinkets to free him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- There were her own trinkets and trousseau, in addition to those which her husband had left behind. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The natives of South America soon discovered that the white man was willing to pay them beads and other trinkets for chunks of this rubber, so they became active in gathering it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Taking toys and trinkets in general, Miss Rachel was nothing like so mad after them as most young girls. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Tonight the luck had been persistently bad, and the little gold purse which hung among her trinkets was almost empty when she returned to her room. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The ignorance of the times affords but few of the trinkets in which that finery consists. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Heavily enough to oblige me to sell some trinkets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Just show 'em how many watches, feathers, and trinkets, one's weight in gold would buy, and that alters the case, _I_ reckon. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Nay, Celia, that is too much to ask, that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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