Finery
['faɪn(ə)rɪ] or ['faɪnəri]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Fineness; beauty.
(n.) Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
(n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
唐尼手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Gewgaws, trinkets, fine things, showy dress, tinsel trappings.
伊迪丝錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Overornament, tawdriness, tinsel, gewgaw, trinkets, trash, dressiness, bedizenment
ANT:Ornament, dress, decoration, adornment, chastity, simplicity, sobriety
贝丝錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- We were all three unusually well dressed on that evening, for our finery was new and we humbly hoped in very good taste. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- No, I see no finery about you; nothing but what is perfectly proper. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I had my choice of the parts, said Mr. Rushworth; but I thought I should like the Count best, though I do not much relish the finery I am to have. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Look that thou pass him not on the way; for the circumcised slave was displaying his stolen finery amongst us. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- What did this finery mean? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half starved their families. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Allah also had to speak very plainly about the general craving among this household of women for this world's life and its ornature and for finery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mr. Bennet protested against any description of finery. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- In that situation, the expense, even of a sovereign, cannot be directed by that vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- All women like finery--extraordinary the effect of those parasols. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- How he should have liked to have returned to the tribe to parade before their envious gaze this wondrous finery. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The ignorance of the times affords but few of the trinkets in which that finery consists. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The families who had been in town for the winter came back again, and summer finery and summer engagements arose. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But I am quite in the minority, I believe; few people seem to value simplicity of dress,show and finery are every thing. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Here you are all got together at this sale of fineries and knickknacks. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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