Hoar
[hɒ:]
解释:
(a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
(a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.
(a.) Musty; moldy; stale.
(n.) Hoariness; antiquity.
(v. t.) To become moldy or musty.
阿尔玛编辑
同义词及近义词:
a. Hoary, white, gray.
编辑:威拉
解释:
adj. white or grayish-white esp. with age or frost: mouldy.—n. hoariness: age.—v.i. (Shak.) to become mouldy.—n. Hoar′-frost white frost: the white particles formed by the freezing of dew.—adjs. Hoar′-head′ed Hoar′y white or gray with age: (bot.) covered with short dense whitish hairs.—adv. Hoar′ily.—ns. Hoar′iness; Hoar′-stone an ancient boundary stone.
阿方斯校对
例句:
- The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Paulina, that gentle hoar-frost of yours, surrounding so much pure, fine flame, is a priceless privilege of nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The distance between us shrank, and the light hoar-frost thawed insensibly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Her boots being thinner than those of the young men, the hoar had damped her feet and made them cold. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
手打:萨曼莎