Loaf
[ləʊf] or [lof]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; 'meat loaf'; 'sugar loaf'; 'a loaf of cheese'.
整理:玛丽斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
(v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
(v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
西莉亚手打
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [Colloquial.] Lounge, be idle, idle away one's time.
安妮特手打
解釋/意思:
n. a regularly shaped mass of bread: a mass of sugar: any lump:—pl. Loaves (lōvz).—n. Loaf′-sug′ar refined sugar in the form of a cone.—Loaves and fishes temporal benefits the main chance for one's self—from John vi. 26.
v.i. to loiter pass time idly.—n. Loaf′er.—adj. Loaf′erish.
編輯:桑德拉
例句/造句/用法:
- On approaching nearer, Bella discerned that the refection had the appearance of a small cottage-loaf and a pennyworth of milk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Priscilla leaves him out the loaf and some milk, when there is any, overnight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The cherubic pocket-knife, with the first bit of the loaf still on its point, lay beside them where it had been hastily thrown down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I kept another small loaf, and a modicum of cheese, on a particular shelf of a particular cupboard, to make my supper on when I came back at night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly-- Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Again--these three white little loaves are for Monsieur Rigaud. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- However, a number of the laborers usually remain in the huts, loafing and fighting the animals and insects that seek refuge from the rising waters. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- What Edison in Florida speaks of as loafing would be for most of us extreme and healthy activity in the cooler Far North. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Men talked, and loafed, and read, and smoked. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
編輯:沃尔夫冈