Ivory
['aɪv(ə)rɪ] or ['aɪvəri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
整理:罗伯塔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
(n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
(n.) Any carving executed in ivory.
(n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
校對:莫利
解釋/意思:
n. the hard white substance composing the tusks of the elephant and of the sea-horse.—adj. made of or resembling ivory.—adj. I′voried made like ivory: furnished with teeth.—ns. I′vory-black a black powder originally made from burnt ivory but now from bone; I′vory-nut the nut of a species of palm containing a substance like ivory; I′vory-palm the tree which bears the ivory-nut; I′vory-por′celain a fine ware with an ivory-white glaze.—Show one's ivories to show the teeth.
錄入:特伦特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of ivory, is favorable to the fortune of the dreamer. To see huge pieces of ivory being carried, denotes financial success and pleasures unalloyed.
亚伦編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The span is made of either hard wood or ivory. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Here there were no white men, no soldiers, nor any rubber or ivory to be gathered for cruel and thankless taskmasters. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Paul, for light enough still lingered to show the velvet blackness of his close-shorn head, and the sallow ivory of his brow) looked in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- These people at a later stage also scratched and engraved designs on ivory and bone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Except for the cue ball, no ivory balls are used today on the pocket table. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The seats had also their stained coverings, and one, which was higher than the rest, was accommodated with a footstool of ivory, curiously carved. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The whiteness of the teeth is not that of ivory, but of the snowiest and most gleaming of china. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Young men like John don't take to ivory hands a pinting, for nothing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In the meantime, the valet left the room, and returned shortly with a little ivory book. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She might be three feet high, but she had no shape; her skinny hands rested upon each other, and pressed the gold knob of a wand-like ivory staff. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In the ivory storage vaults of one large company, there is held from $150,000 to $300,000 worth of ivory, ranging from the tusk up to the finished product. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Ivory is of cellular, not fibrous, construction. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:迈拉