Laurel
['lɒr(ə)l] or ['lɔrəl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory.
(noun.) United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965).
(noun.) any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
錄入:费尔普斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
(n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.
(n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
弗兰克編輯
解釋/意思:
n. the bay-tree used by the ancients for making honorary wreaths: a crown of laurel honours gained (freq. in pl.): any species of the genus Laurus.—adjs. Lau′rel; Lau′relled crowned with laurel.—n. Lau′rel-wa′ter a sedative and narcotic water distilled from the leaves of the cherry-laurel.—adjs. Laurif′erous producing laurel; Lau′riger laurel-wearing.—n Laurustī′nus an evergreen shrub.
編輯:思朋斯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Dreaming of the laurel, brings success and fame. You will acquire new possessions in love. Enterprises will be laden with gain. For a young woman to wreath laurel about her lover's head, denotes that she will have a faithful man, and one of fame to woo her.
整理:洛厄尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The laurus a vegetable dedicated to Apollo and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (Vide supra.)
伯娜丁整理
例句/造句/用法:
- This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Here are their marks on the left--here, beside the laurel bushes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A mass of shrubs, full-leaved evergreens, laurel and dense yewintervened between me and what I followed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Moisten the leaves with a solution of the opium extract in the cherry-laurel water. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- As of yore, the laurel wreath. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Laurel crowns cure no aching head, but the gentle kiss of a loved wife in time of trouble is indeed balm in Gilead. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I was not angry on my own account, but I felt as if the praises which this idol received were leaves torn from laurels destined for Adrian. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A wreath of artificial laurels, for, indeed, your song is but worthy of such. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The Professor conquered, but I cannot say that the laurels of this victory shadowed gracefully his temples. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The song was considered a great success, and the singer retired covered with laurels. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Are his laurels straight? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nor was Podder behindhand in earning laurels wherewith to garnish himself and Muggleton. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Through the gate--now to the right among the laurels. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
錄入:内丽