Fern
[fɜːn] or [fɝn]
[fɝn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores.
乔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) Long ago.
(a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
(n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
校對:鲁珀特
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Brake.
手打:旺达
解釋/意思:
n. one of the beautiful class of higher or vascular cryptogamous plants—the natural order Filices.—ns. Fern′ery a place for rearing ferns; Fern′-owl the European goatsucker or night-jar; Fern′-seed the spores of ferns which properly gathered render the bearers invisible; Fern′shaw a thicket of ferns; Fern′ticle a freckle.—adjs. Fern′ticled; Fern′y.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see ferns in dreams, foretells that pleasant hours will break up gloomy forebodings. To see them withered, indicates that much and varied illness in your family connections will cause you grave unrest.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The palish, gnarled trunks showed ghostly, and like old priests in the hovering distance, the fern rose magical and mysterious. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Rub up well the croton oil and extract of male fern with the acacia, and form into an emulsion with the decoction. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- As soon as he arrived he laid her down carefully by the entrance, and then ran and cut with his pocketknife an armful of the dryest fern. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Before she could speak, Annie had the cover off, and all were exclaiming at the lovely roses, heath, and fern within. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Wildeve snatched up the lantern and began anxiously prowling among the furze and fern. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- As their eyes grew accustomed to the darkness they perceived faint greenish points of light among the grass and fern. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The brakes of furze and fern terminated abruptly round the margin, and the grass was unbroken. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Up from among the fern in the hollow, and winding by the bridle-road among the trees, comes sometimes to this lonely spot the sound of horses' hoofs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Thomasin turned and rolled aside the fern from another nook, where more mellow fruit greeted her with its ripe smell. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Wildeve bade her a tender farewell, and plunged across the fern and furze, Eustacia slowly walking on. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- When D'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A shaped shelter of boughs. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Christian turned and flung himself on the ferns in a convulsion of remorse, O, what shall I do with my wretched self? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The lower mosses must live in damp, and even the development of the spore of the ferns demands at certain stages extreme wetness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For many days D'Arnot lay upon his bed of soft ferns. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Then she raised it to her lips, and crushing it there buried her face in the soft ferns, sobbing. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was knitting as she read aloud. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Clym took the hand which was already bared for him--it was a favourite way with them to walk bare hand in bare hand--and led her through the ferns. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Tracing mile after mile along between the dying ferns and the wet white spiders' webs, she at length turned her steps towards her grandfather's house. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Then he clambered up to the rim of the hollow, and crawled about among the ferns and bushes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Wildeve contemplated her for a minute, and then retreating into the heath beat the ferns lightly, whereupon moths flew out alarmed. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Suddenly he arose, and, bidding D'Arnot good night as he had learned to do, threw himself upon the couch of ferns that had been Jane Porter's. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Then he went back again into the jungle and in a few minutes reappeared with a quantity of soft grasses and ferns. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
手打:尤赖亚