Brooch
[brəʊtʃ] or [brotʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a decorative pin worn by women.
(verb.) fasten with or as if with a brooch.
埃罗尔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
(n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
(imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.
編輯:利拉
解釋/意思:
n. an ornamental pin or instrument for fastening any article of dress consisting for the most part either of a ring or disc or of a semicircle there being a pin in either case passing across it fastened at one end with a joint or loop and at the other with a hook.—v.t. (Shak.) to adorn as with a brooch.
杰米整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Mamma, who gave you this little brooch? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You want a brooch, said Mrs. Fairfax. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But the trooper fails to fasten the brooch. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Before I could say anything to soothe her, she held out one of her hands, and I saw my brooch in it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I told him of the loss of the brooch, and said that Laura had gone into the plantation to look for it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The brooch, the ear-rings, the bracelets: no one in the school has such a set--not Madame herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She has lost the little brooch I gave her for a keepsake on the day before her marriage. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Brooch or no brooch, he growled sulkily, I recommend her not to forget her appointment in the library this afternoon. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She was just fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a brooch; I hurried from under her hands as soon as I could. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I saw, for the first time, that the lost brooch was pinned in its place again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Wemmick's attention being thus directed to his brooch, he put down the cast, and polished the brooch with his pocket-handkerchief. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I went out, as you know, to find my brooch, and I walked along the path through the plantation, looking down on the ground carefully at every step. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Ladies, I am overpowered, and he handed some one a small French prize; to Fanny a pretty brooch; to me, a blank. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Désirée was not to be so cheated: she had learned to bring falsehood to the aid of theft, and would deny having touched the brooch, ring, or scissors. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- See here, I have brought a little brooch along with me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- These brooches and these rings, of a beauty so gracious and celestial, were what one called, with the permission of Monsieur, nuptial gifts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Among the remains of the bronze age are found pins and brooches of bronze. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
錄入:普勒斯顿