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Kettle

['ket(ə)l] or ['kɛtl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid.

(noun.) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.

(noun.) the quantity a kettle will hold.

校對:马特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

辛迪校對

解釋/意思:

n. a vessel of metal for heating or boiling liquids: a cavity like a kettle in rock sand &c.: (Shak.) kettle-drum.—ns. Kett′le-drum a musical instrument now used chiefly in orchestras and in cavalry bands consisting of a hollow brass hemisphere with a parchment head sounded by soft-headed elastic drumsticks: a tea-party; Kett′le-drum′mer; Kett′le-hold′er a little mat &c. for holding a kettle when hot.—n.pl. Kett′le-pins skittle-pins.—A kettle of fish or A pretty kettle of fish a task of great difficulty an awkward mess—most probably in this sense connected with kiddle.

編輯:韦斯利

娱乐性解釋/意思:

To see kettles in your dream, denotes great and laborious work before you. To see a kettle of boiling water, your struggles will soon end and a change will come to you. To see a broken kettle, denotes failure after a mighty effort to work out a path to success. For a young woman to dream of handling dark kettles, foretells disappointment in love and marriage; but a light-colored kettle brings to her absolute freedom from care, and her husband will be handsome and worthy.

校對:苏西

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