Marbles
[mɑ:blz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass).
桃瑞丝整理--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- This is not a time for a lady, however highly connected, to be totally inaudible, and seemingly swallowing marbles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It is built entirely of precious marbles, brought from the Orient --nothing in its composition is domestic. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
整理:奥蒂斯