Blubber
['blʌbə] or ['blʌbɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil.
(verb.) utter while crying.
琼整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A bubble.
(n.) The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
(n.) A large sea nettle or medusa.
(v. i.) To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.
(v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
(v. t.) To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
錄入:皮埃尔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Whale fat.
v. n. Cry (so as to swell the cheeks), whine, whimper, weep.
編輯:罗赞娜
解釋/意思:
n. the fat of whales and other sea animals.—v.i. to weep effusively.—p.adj. Blubb′ered of a face swollen with weeping.
卡梅拉校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
The useful product of a dead whale. The useless product of a live baby.
乔伊手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Laws, Missis, if you's to whip all day, couldn't say no other way, said Topsy, beginning to blubber. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He was not going to blubber before a set of strangers. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- That gave thee too much emotion and thee ran blubbering down the bridge like a woman. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The boy gave the sausage to a peasant, who had very nearly seized it, and stood at the foot of the mast, blubbering, because he was unsuccessful. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Molly, the housemaid, blubbered in the passage when he went away--Molly kind and faithful in spite of a long arrear of unpaid wages. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
整理:米歇尔