Gilt
[gɪlt] or [ɡɪlt]
解釋/意思:
(-) of Gild
(v. t.) A female pig, when young.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Gild.
(p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
(n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
(n.) Money.
整理:拉尔夫
解釋/意思:
n. (Shak.) money.
pa.t. and pa.p of gild.—n. that which is used for gilding.—adjs. Gild′ed; Gilt′-edged having the edges gilt: of the highest quality as 'gilt-edged securities'=those stocks whose interest is considered perfectly safe.—n. Gilt′-head a popular name for several fishes esp. a sparoid fish with a half-moon-shaped gold spot between the eyes.
整理:罗伯塔
例句/造句/用法:
- I told his impudence that the gilt pestle and mortar was quite ornament enough; as if I was born, indeed, to be a country surgeon's wife! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A couple of glazed book-cases were here, containing standard works in stout gilt bindings. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It's wrote on gilt-edged paper,' said Sam, as he unfolded it, 'and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door key. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- If we are gentlefolks they will put hatchments over our late domicile, with gilt cherubim, and mottoes stating that there is Quiet in Heaven. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I was NABBED by Moss of Cursitor Street--from whose GILT AND SPLENDID PARLER I write this--the same that had me this time two years. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I sat with my eyes fixed on the door--a great white folding-door, with gilt mouldings: I watched to see a leaf move and open. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Look, here is a trifle of the red that underlay the gilt. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There was a score of candles sparkling round the mantel piece, in all sorts of quaint sconces, of gilt and bronze and porcelain. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The gilt bindings of the seven handsome little volumes caught the old lady's eye. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She rose from Madame Olenska's side, and immediately Mrs. van der Luyden beckoned the latter to a seat on the gilt sofa where she throned. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Of course we ascended to the summit of the dome, and of course we also went up into the gilt copper ball which is above it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Emperor of Russia sent him a magnificent silver-gilt vase, with a letter congratulating him on his great achievement, and the King of England made him a baronet. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The great altar of the cathedral and also three or four minor ones are a perfect mass of gilt gimcracks and gingerbread. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Taking up a little gilt volume, I found it to contain a selection of lyrics. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Edwards pressed on me a silver-gilt boot-jack, and I might have had a dressing-case fitted up with a silver warming-pan, and a service of plate. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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