Boon
[buːn] or [bʊn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A prayer or petition.
(n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
(n.) Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
(n.) Kind; bountiful; benign.
(n.) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
(n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
校對:西尔玛
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Gift, present, benefaction, grant, offering.
a. [1]. Kind, bountiful, generous.[2]. Gay, merry, jovial, jolly, convivial.
杰里手打
解釋/意思:
adj. gay merry or kind.
n. a petition: a gift or favour.
整理:谢尔登
例句/造句/用法:
- Why, hermit, was the yeoman's first question as soon as he beheld the knight, what boon companion hast thou here? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- No greater boon could I ask, no greater honour could I crave, no greater happiness could I hope. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- A boon', a boon', quoth Earl' Mar-shal', And fell' on his bend'-ded knee', That what'-so-e'er' the queen' shall say', No harm' there-of' may be'. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- You really are a Boon, you know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- What a noble boon, worthy the giver, is the imagination! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It does not say, Intercede for us, through the Saviour, with the Father, for this boon, but Blessed Peter, give it us. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And a State may get on without cobblers; but when the guardians degenerate into boon companions, then the ruin is complete. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The boon companion of the colossal elephant was a common cat! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Thus many artesian wells have been sunk in the Algerian Sahara which have proved an immense boon to the district. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He asked, he urged, he claimed the boon of a brand snatched from the burning. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Still, on the whole, it is possible to be too boastful even of that boon. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And now to my boon, said the King, which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Jenner in 1798 for the first time announced his discovery of this great boon to the human race. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- If you wish to offer me a gift, a parting present, a keepsake, you must change the boon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But this boon to Ireland, it is to be hoped, has been granted under more fortunate auspices than all those to America. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The representatives of New York could with justice drink the health of the young inventor, whose system is one of the greatest boons the city has ever had conferred upon it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Some such boons as these were the best which Fortune allotted to poor little Amelia. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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