Clay
[kleɪ] or [kle]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852).
(noun.) United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978).
(noun.) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
格伦达整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
(n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
(v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.
(v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
加德纳整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Argillaceous earth (consisting principally of alumina and silica).
校對:沃尔多
解釋/意思:
n. a tenacious ductile earth: earth in general: the human body: short for clay-pipe a tobacco-pipe made of baked clay.—v.t. to purify with clay as sugar.—adjs. Clay′-brained (Shak.) stupid; Clay′-cold cold as clay lifeless.—n. Clay′-eat′er one addicted to chewing a fatty clay—in Brazil and elsewhere.—adjs. Clayed clay-like; Clay′ey made of clay: covered with clay.—n. Clay′-ground ground consisting mainly of clay.—adj. Clay′ish of the nature of clay.—ns. Clay′-marl a whitish chalky clay; Clay′-mill a mill for preparing clay; Clay′-slate an argillaceous rock splitting readily into thin sheets; Clay′stone one of the concretionary nodules in alluvial deposits.—Wet one's clay to drink.
乔安娜錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of clay, denotes isolation of interest and probable insolvency. To dig in a clay bank, foretells you will submit to extraordinary demands of enemies. If you dig in an ash bank and find clay, unfortunate surprises will combat progressive enterprises or new work. Your efforts are likely to be misdirected after this dream. Women will find this dream unfavorable in love, social and business states, and misrepresentations will overwhelm them.
校對:梅勒妮
例句/造句/用法:
- It was a clay pipe, and its colour was reddish. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Why, I suppose so from the colour of the clay upon your bag and on your dress. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The lime was added as a flux, and acted to unite with itself the sand, clay and other impurities to form a slag or scoria. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A little cup is then fastened to the tree with a piece of soft clay to press the cup against it, and the juice runs into this cup. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Although they had clay available, and although there are several Pal?olithic clay figures on record, they had _no pottery_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- After all, Watson, said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The outsides of the buildings somewhat resembled the cement houses which have been put up in later days, a coat of clay being spread on the outside walls and carefully smoothed off. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- After trying all known methods to get through, it was decided to bake this wet clay by means of intense heat. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish white, makes reddish stone color. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Later I went to work--imprinted the stamp on clay bottles, before they were baked. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Odd vases made by his own hand from the clay of the region held beautiful tropical flowers. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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