Buttons
[bʌtəns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
校對:马蒂
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young woman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in marriage. To a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright career. Dull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses and ill health. The loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment, denotes prospective losses in trade.
手打:梅格
例句/造句/用法:
- Contemplation of Mr Dorrit's waistcoat buttons by Mr Merdle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Here Mr. Casaubon paused, removed one hand from his back and thrust it between the buttons of his single-breasted coat. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Why, what do you make out that they done with their buttons then, Jack? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The unsuspecting Sloppy was at that moment airing his many buttons within view of the window. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And--dash it--old chap, give him these gold sleeve-buttons: it's all I've got. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Poor Sloppy flushed too, for there was an instinctive delicacy behind his buttons, and his own hand had struck it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She had on a black velvet polonaise with jet buttons, and a tiny green monkey muff; I never saw her so stylishly dressed, Janey continued. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I will see that the buttons of the recruits are properly bright and that the sergeants make no mistakes in their accounts. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I lay at full length along the deck with the levers and buttons of control before me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- His coat, that used to be so glossy and trim, was white at the seams, and the buttons showed the copper. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mr Sloppy introduced himself by name and buttons. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Here, Mr Sloppy opening his mouth to a quite alarming extent, and throwing back his head to peal again, revealed incalculable buttons. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The evening hunt-dress is red, lined with white; and the buttons and whole style of it are very becoming. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He was habited in a coarse, striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons; drab breeches and leggings. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She did not say anything but slipped her hand inside of his shirt and he felt her undoing the shirt buttons and she said, You, too. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Done with their buttons? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- How those sleeve-buttons will suit me! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Yes, I think it rather pretty,' said the beadle, glancing proudly downwards at the large brass buttons which embellished his coat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Die-sinking is the art of preparing dies for stamping coins, buttons, medallions, jewelry, fittings, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- She had seen the buttons, and was sure that they belonged to the clothes which he had worn last night. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- His bright buttons, too, were of the largest size. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He wore a glazed hat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes; his brass buttons bearing an anchor upon their face. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He soon made it plain that this was so; for, in another day or two he sent off his sleeve-buttons and finger-rings. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He sported a military frock-coat, ornamented with frogs, knobs, black buttons, and meandering embroidery. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It has always large dull metal buttons, similar to no other buttons. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Done with their buttons! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The small boy in buttons carried the package. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- He wore a black velvet waistcoat, with thunder-and-lightning buttons; and a blue striped shirt, with a white false collar. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
手打:梅格