Ashes
['æʃiz]
解釋/意思:
(n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
(n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay.
(n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.
編輯:弗吉尼亚
同義詞及近義詞:
n. pl. [1]. Remains (of what is burnt).[2]. Corpse, remains (of the human body), dead body.
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解釋/意思:
n.pl. the dust or remains of anything burnt: the remains of the human body when burnt: (fig.) a dead body: used to express pallor from the colour of wood-ashes as in 'pale as ashes ' 'ashy-pale.'—n. Ash′-buck′et a box or bucket in which house-ashes and general refuse are collected for removal.—adjs. Ash′en Ash′en-gray.—ns. Ash′ery a place where potash or pearl-ash is made; Ash′-heap a heap of ashes and household refuse; Ash′-leach a tub in which alkaline salts are dissolved from wood-ashes; Ash′-pan a kind of tray fitted underneath a grate to receive the ashes.—adjs. Ash′y Ash′y-gray.—To lay in ashes to destroy utterly by burning.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
Dreaming of ashes omens woe, and many bitter changes are sure to come to the dreamer. Blasted crops to the farmer. Unsuccessful deals for the trader. Parents will reap the sorrows of wayward children.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- What's the good of a thing that you can't put down in the ashes to warm, hey, neighbours; that's what I ask? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Don't lose your temper as well as your money, says Mr. George, calmly knocking the ashes out of his pipe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Then we'll go get the ashes dragged. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Phil announcing it, Mr. George knocks the ashes out of his pipe on the hob, stands his pipe itself in the chimney corner, and sits down to the meal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Like Homer, he is said to be buried in many other places, but this is the only true and genuine place his ashes inhabit. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In practice, the wood ashes were boiled in water, which was then strained off, and the resulting filtrate, or lye, was mixed with the fats for soap making. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- When wood is burned, a small pile of ashes is left, and we think of the bulk of the wood as destroyed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Above a heap of dust and ashes in the court, ran the letters: National Property. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He attended on us, as I may say, in sackcloth and ashes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And the books are dust and ashes--and oh, sirs! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Being in a narrow street and a congested district, the plant needed special facilities for the handling of coal and ashes, as well as for ventilation and forced draught. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In that case, I know where you are going, said Crispin, carefully shaking the ashes out of his pipe; your destination is the Island of Melnos. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- If it had ever been here, its ashes alone would save me from the void in which my whole life sinks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- As she spoke, she drained the basin into the ashes of the fire, and broke the bottle on the hearth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He has repented it in sackcloth and ashes, Robert Moore, as you may well believe when you see his punishment (here she pointed to her children). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was like pushing the chair itself back into the past, when we began the old slow circuit round about the ashes of the bridal feast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I had risen from my seat and was knocking out the ashes of my pipe when I suddenly heard the clang of the bell. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The term is also applied to the extraordinary phenomenon of the human body, which has been told of some people, whereby it is reduced to ashes without the application of fire. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We could not bring ourselves to think St. John had two sets of ashes. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Formerly, the supply of soda was very limited because man was dependent upon natural deposits and upon ashes of sea plants for it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I don't wish to rake up his ashes, but he had, what I should call if he was living, a devil of a tight hold of me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It gives an immediate heat in the kitchen for all culinary and domestic purposes, without the incidental objections of having to transport fuel and remove ashes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We have reduced it to a little harmless heap of ashes; and our dear impulsive Rachel will never know what we have done! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Do you care much for the ashes left in your pipe when you empty it? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- There was a heap of old feathery wood-ashes on the hearth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Saturnia's statue rises chaste, grand, untouched; at her feet piled ashes lie pale. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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