Emblem
['embləm] or ['ɛmbləm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
(noun.) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea.
布什校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
(n.) A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity.
(n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
(v. t.) To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.
校對:雷明顿
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Type, symbol, sign, representation, token, badge, mark, device, cognizance, allusive figure.
吉尔达整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Device, cognizance, sign, token, symbol, representation, type, badge, mark
ANT:Disguise, decoy, incognito, domino, blind, ruse
手打:奥拉夫
解釋/意思:
n. a picture representing to the mind something different from itself: a type or symbol: (Milton) an inlaid ornament.—v.t. to symbolise.—n. Emblē′ma an inlaid ornament:—pl. Emblē′mata.—adjs. Emblemat′ic -al pertaining to or containing emblems: symbolical: representing.—adv. Emblemat′ically.—v.t. Emblem′atise Em′blemise to represent by an emblem:—pr.p. emblem′atīsing; pa.p. emblem′atīsed.—n. Emblem′atist a writer or inventor of emblems.
艾达校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The blue eyes of my angelic girl were fixed on this sweet emblem of herself: How the light palpitates, she said, which is that star's life. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Why is the Thistle the Emblem of Scotland? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- What to him the sanctity of the star which the Son of God has hallowed as his own emblem? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- She seemed the emblem of my past life; and here I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Well, this dead man had some Catholic emblem round his neck, and that, along with his colour, made me think he was from the South. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A bad earthquake destroys our oldest associations; the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a flui d. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Under this respectable emblem stood a cross, stated to be the mark of Gurth, the son of Beowulph. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- A cloak (on a woman's back) is an emblem of charity--it covers a multitude of sins. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This key, you must know, Mr Maurice, is the emblem of sovereignty in Melnos—the sceptre of the island! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
編輯:洛拉