Barnacle
['bɑːnək(ə)l] or ['bɑrnəkl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces.
杰米整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
(n.) A bernicle goose.
(n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
(sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
手打:托马斯
解釋/意思:
n. a shellfish which adheres to rocks and the bottoms of ships: a companion who sticks closely.—n. Bar′nacle-goose a species of wild goose belonging to the Northern seas so called from a notion that they were produced from the barnacles mentioned.
n. an instrument consisting of two branches joined by a hinge placed on the nose of horses to keep them quiet: (pl.) a colloquial term for 'spectacles.'—adj. Bar′nacled.
編輯:罗德里克
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr Merdle issued invitations for a Barnacle dinner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The father of that father who married a Barnacle, married a Joddleby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Ferdinand Barnacle was there, and in his most engaging state. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This airy young Barnacle was quite entertained by his simplicity in supposing for a moment that it was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- To have got the whole Barnacle family together would have been impossible for two reasons. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Come back here and read it out loud, you old barnacle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was a triumph of public business,' said this handsome young Barnacle, laughing heartily, 'You never saw such a lot of forms in your life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The engaging young Barnacle was the first arrival; but Bar overtook him on the staircase. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr Barnacle would see him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You haven't got any appointment, you know,' said Barnacle Junior. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Thus the Barnacles were all over the world, in every direction--despatch-boxing the compass. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A method of preventing in a great measure friction of water against the hull of a ship and incidentally preventing fouling by barnacles. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But all days come that are to be; and the marriage-day was to be, and it came; and with it came all the Barnacles who were bidden to the feast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Then would the inferior Barnacles exclaim, obeying orders, 'Hear, Hear, Hear! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr Merdle was going to take up the Barnacles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A Shoal of Barnacles Mr Henry Gowan and the dog were established frequenters of the cottage, and the day was fixed for the wedding. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He's heerd all about you from the sawbones in barnacles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Either the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That what the Barnacles had to do, was to stick on to the national ship as long as they could. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
編輯:朗达