Turquoise
['tɜːkwɒɪz;-kwɑːz] or ['tɝkwɔɪz]
解释:
(noun.) a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate; 'blue turquoise is valued as a gemstone'.
校对:菲利斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Alt. of Turquois
(a.) Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.
录入:雷内
解释:
n. an opaque greenish-blue mineral from Persia valued as a gem essentially a phosphate of alumina harder than feldspar but softer than quartz occurring as thin veins in slate rock.—n. Turquoise′-green a pale colour between green and blue—also adj.
塞西尔编辑
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a torquoise,{sic} foretells you are soon to realize some desire which will greatly please your relatives. For a woman to have one stolen, foretells she will meet with crosses in love. If she comes by it dishonestly, she must suffer for yielding to hasty susceptibility in love.
整理:斯特拉
例句:
- The Pharaohs of the 1st Dynasty were already working the copper and turquoise mines in the peninsula of Sinai. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- She gave that funny guard to keep the turquoise on, as it's too big. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- It had a flight of storks streaming through a turquoise sky of light, over a dark earth. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The turquoise, a phosphate of aluminum colored with copper, is not synthetically produced, although various experiments with its manufacture have been made. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Sandwiched between the earth and the turquoise sky, the Atlantic lay gleaming like a huge silver wafer in the sunlight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
编辑:梅齐