Bauble
['bɔːb(ə)l] or ['bɔbl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
(n.) The fool's club.
整理:彼得
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Toy, trifle, plaything, knicknack, gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaw
ANT:Valuable, possession, acquisition, gera, ornament, decoration, jewel
整理:威廉
解釋/意思:
n. a trifling piece of finery: a child's plaything: a stick surmounted by a head with ass's ears and forming the mock emblem of the court-jester: a piece of childish foolery: (Shak.) a foolish person.—adj. Bau′bling (obs.) trifling.
編輯:韦德
例句/造句/用法:
- A dainty song, said Wamba, when they had finished their carol, and I swear by my bauble, a pretty moral! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- My fool's cap was a casque, and my bauble a truncheon. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- On a table near her is a rich bauble of a casket, barred and clasped like an old strong-chest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She pointed to it now, and Tarzan removed it and handed the pretty bauble to her. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Perish a thousand such frail baubles as this Jewess, before thy manly step pause in the brilliant career that lies stretched before thee! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Found in their natural state in utmost perfection, needing no cutting nor polishing, these glowing beads of the sea were the first baubles of savages, tribes and nations. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- She clung hold of his coat, of his hands; her own were all covered with serpents, and rings, and baubles. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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