Amber
['æmbɚ]
['æmbə] or ['æmbɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a deep yellow color; 'an amber light illuminated the room'; 'he admired the gold of her hair'.
(noun.) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry.
(adj.) of a medium to dark brownish yellow color .
錄入:莉娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
(n.) Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
(n.) Ambergris.
(n.) The balsam, liquidambar.
(a.) Consisting of amber; made of amber.
(a.) Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
(v. t.) To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.
(v. t.) To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
手打:露西娅
解釋/意思:
n. a yellowish fossil resin used in making ornaments.—adjs. Am′bered (obs.) flavoured with amber or ambergris; Amb′ery.
埃尔韦拉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Then he has bitten through his amber. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Remember, I have your amber heart. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The attractive power of amber is mentioned by Theophrastus and Pliny, and from them by later naturalists. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The amber heart, please; I must bind it to the chain. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- You've got to thank my amber heart for your safety. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Her bejewelled hands lay sprawling in her amber satin lap. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The fat is then packed in cloths set in moulds and a slowly increasing pressure squeezes out the pure amber colored oil, leaving the stearine behind. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I wonder how many real amber mouthpieces there are in London? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- A nice old brier with a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He was the first to use the terms, electricity, electric and electrode, which he derived from the word _elektron_, the Greek name for amber. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Still, if you like, Helena, we will put it all down to your amber heart. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The hair was to fall over the neck and face in a profusion of careless ringlets, and, inside my vest, an Indian amber-coloured hankerchief. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She wore an amber-coloured flower, too, in her hair: it contrasted well with the jetty mass of her curls. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- How warm in its amber lamp-light and vermilion fire-flush! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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