Willow
['wɪləʊ] or ['wɪlo]
解释:
(noun.) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers.
(noun.) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix.
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解释:
(n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.
(n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
(v. t.) To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Osier.
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解释:
n. any tree or shrub of the genus Salix having slender pliant branches: the wood of the willow: a cricket-bat.—v.t. to beat with willow rods as in cleaning cotton &c.—adj. Will′owed abounding with or containing willows.—n. Will′ow-herb a perennial herb (Epilobium) of the evening primrose family—also Rose-bay Bay-willow French or Persian willow.—adj. Will′owish like a willow slender and supple.—ns. Will′ow-machine′ a machine for extracting dirt from hemp cotton &c.—also Will′ow; Will′ow-moth a common British night-moth; Will′ow-war′bler -wren a small European sylviine bird; Will′ow-weed one of various species of Polygonum or knot-weed: the purple loose-strife.—adj. Will′owy abounding in willows: flexible graceful.—n. Weep′ing-will′ow a very ornamental species a native of the East much planted in Britain on account of its beautiful pendent twigs.—Bedford willow a species whose bark is especially rich in salicin and in tannin; White or Huntingdon willow the largest of British species reaching a height of eighty feet.
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娱乐性解释：
To dream of willows, foretells that you will soon make a sad journey, but you will be consoled in your grief by faithful friends.
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例句:
- I hung to the willow branch and did not have strength to pull myself up but I knew I would not drown now. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Let your guards attend me, he said, if you please--I go but to cut a rod from the next willow-bush. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Oh, yes, answered I, as green as a willow leaf: and in extreme cases like yours I am apt to recommend a little gunpowder. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Luckily the punt drifted so that he could catch hold of a willow bough, and pull it to the island. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- They had sat down under the willow tree, and were looking at the pond, from their retreat on the island. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I could see twigs on the willow bush. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- They landed under a willow tree. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The teapot, the old stocking-foot, the linen rag, the willow-pattern tureen will yield up their barren deposit in many a house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She stopped, withdrawing a little behind a willow, and studied his appearance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The way to the shore descended from the bank on which the house was perched to a walk above the water planted with weeping willows. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- As I walked down to the lake, I saw that the ground on its farther side was damp and marshy, overgrown with rank grass and dismal willows. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Then I crawled out, pushed on through the willows and onto the bank. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
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