Candlestick
['kænd(ə)lstɪk] or ['kændlstɪk]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
伊桑錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see a candlestick bearing a whole candle, denotes that a bright future lies before you filled with health, happiness and loving companions. If empty, the reverse.
整理:莫顿
例句/造句/用法:
- Are you any fresher now, or do you want the iron candlestick to wake you thoroughly? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- At that moment, Mistress Affery (of course, the woman with the apron) dropped the candlestick she held, and cried out, 'There! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I vow to Saint Nicholas of Limoges a candlestick of pure gold-- Spare thy vow, said the Templar, and mark me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- No, sir, only the candlestick on the ground. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- You know it is a mere bachelor's room, continued he, lighting a long tallow-candle by a short piece, which was burning in a broken candlestick. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- There was a candle burning, but the man hastily drew it from the candlestick, and hurled it under the grate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- There was a bit of cheese and bread, and a tin candlestick on the table, and a little black porter in a pint-pot. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The candlestick has been removed from Ephesus. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He took hold of the candlestick, but stood motionless for a long while. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Wilfer returned, candlestick in hand, to the bosom of his family, he found the bosom agitated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I opened it softly and found Miss Jellyby shivering there with a broken candle in a broken candlestick in one hand and an egg-cup in the other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I'm sure you don't want me to admire butchers and bakers, and candlestick-makers, do you, mamma? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It grew dark, and they put candles on the tables--candles set in bright, new, brazen candlesticks. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Is sure he is at the head of a lodge, and wears short aprons, and is made a perfect idol of with candlesticks and trowels. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He is not there, but his two old-fashioned candlesticks are, and the room is tolerably light. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mr. Tupman rang the bell, purchased the tickets, and ordered chamber candlesticks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In all sorts of recesses, and on all kinds of brackets, stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- On a dirty table stand scores of corresponding brass candlesticks with tallow candles for the lodgers, whose keys hang up in rows over the candles. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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