Wafer
['weɪfə] or ['wefɚ]
解释:
(noun.) thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist).
(noun.) a small thin crisp cake or cookie.
(noun.) a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters.
乔治娜手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
(n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.
(n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
(v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.
雨果录入
解释:
n. a thin round cake of unleavened bread usually stamped with a cross an Agnus Dei the letters I.H.S. &c. used in the Eucharist in the R.C. Church: a thin leaf of coloured paste for sealing letters &c.: a thin cake of paste used to facilitate the swallowing of powders.—v.t. to close with a wafer.—n. Wā′fer-cake.—adj. Wā′fery like a wafer.
杰拉尔德编辑
娱乐性解释:
Wafer, if seen in a dream, purports an encounter with enemies. To eat one, suggests impoverished fortune. For a young woman to bake them, denotes that she will be tormented and distressed by fears of remaining in the unmarried state.
编辑:兰德尔
例句:
- I hastily broke open the plain wafer seal, and found a two hundred pound bank-note, merely enclosed in a blank cover. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- As the wafer digested, the tincture mounted to his brain, bearing the proposition along with it. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The proposition, and demonstration, were fairly written on a thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- 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.
- But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Who has not had their letters, with the wafers wet, and the announcement that a person is waiting in the hall? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Here is an inkstand, here are pens and paper, here are wafers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- You and Fosco are to sign afterwards, Miss Halcombe, opposite those two wafers. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
尤妮斯录入