Bone
[bəʊn] or [bon]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a shade of white the color of bleached bones.
(noun.) rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates.
(noun.) the porous calcified substance from which bones are made.
(verb.) remove the bones from; 'bone the turkey before roasting it'.
(adj.) consisting of or made up of bone; 'a bony substance'; 'the bony framework of the body' .
校對:桑福德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
(n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
(n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
(n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
(n.) Dice.
(n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
(n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.
(v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
(v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
(v. t.) To fertilize with bone.
(v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
(v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
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解釋/意思:
n. a hard substance forming the skeleton of mammalian animals: a piece of the skeleton of an animal: (pl.) the bones collectively: mortal remains: pieces of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music: dice as made of bone ivory &c.—v.t. to take the bones out of as meat: to seize to steal.—ns. Bone′-ache (Shak.) aching or pain in the bones; Bone′-ash Bone′-earth the remains when bones are burnt in an open furnace; Bone′-black the remains when bones are heated in a close vessel.—adj. Boned—used in composition as high-boned: having bones: having the bones removed.—ns. Bone′-dust ground or pulverised bones used in agriculture; Bone′-lace lace woven with bobbins which were frequently made of bone.—adj. Bone′less wanting bones.—ns. Bone′-set′ter one who treats broken bones without being a duly qualified surgeon; Bone′-shāk′er a name familiarly given to the earlier forms of bicycle before india-rubber tires; Bone′-spav′in a bony excrescence or hard swelling on the inside of the hock of a horse.—adj. Bon′y full of or consisting of bones.—A bone of contention something that causes strife; A bone to pick something to occupy one a difficulty a grievance controversy dispute.—To make no bones of to have no scruples in regard to something; To the bone to the inmost part.
手打:拉蒙纳
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you. To see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you.
整理:纳特
娱乐性解釋/意思:
One Dollar—the original price of a wife. Note, Adam, who had to give up one bone before he got Eve.
校對:迈克尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Bring me a grilled bone. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But the wheels had hard tires, the roads and many of the streets were not smooth, the vehicle got the name of the bone-breaker and its use ceased. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Bute, Bute, why did you break your collar-bone? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If I had--killed your--mother with my own hand--I should not deserve such a scourging to the bone as this. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Sure and I'm just going there, to come back again by the marrow-bone stage. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Her own little right-hand middle finger got steeped to the very bone in ink; and I think that was the only decided result obtained. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Was it her shoes, her stays, or her bones? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They have dug a hole, and they have found things like flowerpots upside down, Mis'ess Yeobright; and inside these be real charnel bones. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She was pleased, but answered, 'Tut, Trot; MY old bones would have kept till tomorrow! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She drove out solemnly in their great family coach with them, and Miss Wirt their governess, that raw-boned Vestal. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I like your face, Lady Jane: it's got none of the damned high-boned Binkie look in it; and I'll give ee something pretty, my dear, to go to Court in. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One night, very late, near Dublin, he met two of his brothers just as they had got into a violent row with three raw-boned, half naked Irish pats. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A large-boned lady, long past middle age, sat at work in a grim handsomely-furnished dining-room. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He is perched on a large raw-boned hunter, half-covered by a capacious saddle. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
整理:康拉德