Billiards
['bɪljədz] or ['bɪljɚdz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls.
杰弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
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解釋/意思:
n. a game played with a cue or mace and balls on a table having pockets at the sides and corners.—adj. Bill′iard.—n. Bill′iard-mark′er a person who marks the points made by the players.
校對:惠特尼
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer. Law suits and contentions over property. Slander will get in her work to your detriment. If you see table and balls idle, deceitful comrades are undermining you{.}
錄入:露西
例句/造句/用法:
- I'd like to play a few more games at billiards with him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They seem for the most part shabby in attire, dingy of linen, lovers of billiards and brandy, and cigars and greasy ordinaries. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If your son John took to billiards, now, he'd make a fool of himself. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- From that time to the present the tide of popularity for billiards as the premier indoor game has been steadily rising. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Cotton’s Compleat Gamster published in 1674, refers to billiards as This most gentle, cleanly and ingenious game. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Horse billiards is a fine game. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Shakespeare, in Anthony and Cleopatra (Act II, Scene 5), makes the latter say, Let us to billiards. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He played a lovely game of billiards and with the handicap I was only four ahead at fifty. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- One hot Saturday night, after Mr. Edison had looked over the evening papers, he said to me: 'Do you want to play a game of billiards? 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Gad, I'll write him a note, and have him; and I'll try if he can play piquet as well as billiards. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Billiards was brought to America by the Spaniards who settled St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I asked Mrs. Fairfax if she had seen him;--yes: she believed he was playing billiards with Miss Ingram. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Billiards was the game of the aristocracy and the Puritan hated not only the aristocrat, but the style and color of his clothes, the cut of his hair, as well as the games he played. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Carom and pocket billiards are so different that either they must be played on separate tables, or else the rails are so constructed as to be interchangeable. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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