Bough
[baʊ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
(n.) A gallows.
整理:怀亚特
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Branch, limb, shoot.
哈恩編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a branch of a tree: the gallows.
爱德华整理
例句/造句/用法:
- To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They fall off from me, he said to himself, they hold no more by me than a withered leaf by the bough when a breeze blows on it! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Frazer's _Golden Bough_ about the ancient use of human beings as well as statues to represent gods. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I alight here and there, but fly when I am weary of the bough. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Else it would seem as if I had forgotten him, said Thomasin, tossing out a bough. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Luckily the punt drifted so that he could catch hold of a willow bough, and pull it to the island. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Perhaps myself--more likely a bat or a tree-bough. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Frazer's _Golden Bough_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The savage who seizes hold of a broken bough is in possession of the _lever_, the uses of which he learns by the facility it affords in moving other objects. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- When D'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A shaped shelter of boughs. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Lunch was served on the lawn, under the great tree, whose thick, blackish boughs came down close to the grass. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Perhaps there would be rude wind shelters of boughs on one side of the encampment. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I saw her through a space in the boughs overhead. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The trunks remain still and firm as pillars, while the boughs sway to every breeze. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She stood quietly near the window, looking at the grand cedar on her lawn watching a bird on one of its lower boughs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As he approached the window nearest the door he saw that the cabin had been divided into two rooms by a rough partition of boughs and sailcloth. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Through the boughs of the long avenue beyond the gardens she caught the flash of wheels, and divined that more visitors were approaching. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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