Beech
[biːtʃ] or [bitʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions.
(noun.) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles.
沙琳編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.
手打:蒙塔古
解釋/意思:
n. a common forest tree with smooth silvery-looking bark and small edible nuts.—adj. Beech′en.—ns. Beech′-mast the mast or nuts of the beech-tree which yield a valuable oil; Beech′-oil oil expressed from the nuts of the beech-tree.
編輯:内尔达
例句/造句/用法:
- Switches were brought in bundles, from a beech wood near the school house, by the boys for whose benefit they were intended. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- White--the school teacher --now, with his long beech switch always in his hand. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There was a small garden on the place where the beech-tree had been. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He had for food hazel-nuts, beech-nuts, sweet chestnuts, earth-nuts, and acorns. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the air, the unfolding leaves of a copper-beech were blood-red. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The Bentwood Ware Factories of Austria, Hungary, Moravia (1870-73), in Vast Beech Forests Followed in other Countries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Thou hast never known a forest of beech, nor of oak, nor of chestnut. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I have it here and I will read it to you: 'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The Copper Beeches, five miles on the far side of Winchester. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Whatever landscape might lie further must have been flat, and these tall beeches shut it out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- A bubbling spring prattles over stones on one side, and a plantation of a few elms and beeches, hardly deserve, and yet continue the name of wood. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Let us sit here, Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- On the very first day that I was at the Copper Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands near the kitchen door. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- A clump of copper beeches immediately in front of the hall door has given its name to the place. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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