Cricket
['krɪkɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs.
(noun.) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together.
(verb.) play cricket.
巴罗錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.
(n.) A low stool.
(n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
(n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
(v. i.) To play at cricket.
科琳錄入
解釋/意思:
n. (Scot.) a low stool.
n. a saltatory orthopterous insect allied to grasshoppers and locusts.
n. an outdoor game played with bats a ball and wickets between two sides of eleven each.—v.i. to play at cricket.—ns. Crick′eter one who plays at cricket; Crick′et-match a match at cricket.
編輯:朱尔斯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news, and perhaps the death of some distant friend. To see them, indicates hard struggles with poverty.
手打:肖恩
例句/造句/用法:
- After a minute's silence, he looked down at Amy, who sat on the cricket at his feet, and said, with a caress of the shining hair. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- How many a summer hour have I known to be but blissful minutes to him in the cricket-field! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I'm happy as a cricket here, answered Jo. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Well, I like to hear about cricket and boating and hunting, said Frank, who had not yet learned to suit his amusements to his strength. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Cricket dinner-- glorious party--capital songs--old port--claret--good--very good--wine, ma'am--wine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In his hand he held a blue cricket-cap with a white chevron on the peak. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one, began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It's like a limited game of cricket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Fred Beauclerc is a sly, shy, odd man, not very communicative, unless one talks about cricket. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Pop'lar feeling has in a measure subsided, consekens o' the boys having dispersed to cricket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A while ago he was all down in the mouth, and now he's peart as a cricket. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- This one blacked his shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He could as soon play at leap-frog or at cricket as change into a cricket or a frog himself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Why he plays at cricket in gloves! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Mr. Franklin burst out laughing--and we were as merry as crickets, until the next new side of his character turned up in due course. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
錄入:内丽