Billet
['bɪlɪt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter.
(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
錄入:保拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Note, short letter.
v. a. Assign (to a lodging place, as soldiers, by a billet), apportion, allot, distribute, quarter, place in lodgings.
編輯:兰德尔
解釋/意思:
n. a little note or paper: a ticket assigning quarters to soldiers.—v.t. to quarter or lodge as soldiers.
n. a small log of wood used as fuel: (archit.) an ornament in Norman architecture resembling billets of wood.—n. Bill′et-head a billet or round piece of wood fixed in the bow or stern of a whale-boat round which the harpoon-line is turned when the whale is struck.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Perhaps she just looked first into the bouquet, to see whether there was a billet-doux hidden among the flowers; but there was no letter. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It is an established axiom, that 'every bullet has its billet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Be kind enough to address it to John Sedley, Esquire, and to seal this billet which I have written to his lady. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- After cooling, the molds are removed and the steel in the form of a billet is taken to the next process in manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I had worn out my boots paddling up office stairs, and I seemed just as far from getting a billet as ever. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- This then was no billet-doux; and it was in settled conviction to the contrary that I quietly opened it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In France, where there is no bank, the state bills (billets d'etat {See Examen des Reflections Politiques sur les Finances. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I rose and examined carefully the different billets of wood which were scattered round the floor. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Trooper was never yet billeted upon a household more unlike him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Traddles and I were separated at table, being billeted in two remote corners: he in the glare of a red velvet lady; I, in the gloom of Hamlet's aunt. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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