Lustre
['lʌstə] or ['lʌstɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
(n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.
(n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.
(n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.
(n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.
(n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.
(v. t.) To make lustrous.
(n.) Same as Luster.
手打:雷切尔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [Written also Luster.] [1]. Brightness, brilliancy, splendor, gleam, radiance, resplendence, refulgence.[2]. Distinction, repute, renown, eminence, celebrity, glory, honor, ECLAT.[3]. Chandelier, CANDELABRUM.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Brightness, splendor, brilliancy, effulgence, glory, renown,[See EFFULGENCE]
手打:莉莲
解釋/意思:
n. brightness gloss splendour: (fig.) renown: a candlestick ornamented with pendants of cut-glass: the characteristic appearance of a bright metallic surface or of air within glass under water as seen under certain angles of total reflection: a dress material having a highly finished surface: a glaze applied to porcelain.—adjs. Lus′treless destitute of lustre; Lus′trous bright: shining: luminous.—adv. Lus′trously.
n. a period of five years: (orig.) the solemn offering for the purification of the Roman people made by one of the censors at the conclusion of the census taken every five years.—adj. Lus′tral relating to or used in lustration: of or pertaining to a lustre.—n. Lustrā′tion a purification by sacrifice: act of purifying.—adj. Lus′trical pertaining to purification by lustration.
手打:莉莲
例句/造句/用法:
- But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- How white her lustre is, compared with the deep red of the bonfires! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- That child had no doubts, asked herself no question, for she was but too content to see him with a lustre round his head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The pond was large, and had that perfect stillness and the dark lustre of very deep water. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mrs. Peniston's icy drawing-room grate shone with a forbidding lustre: the fire, like the lamps, was never lit except when there was company. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- No tint could be more ravishing, no lustre more superb. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She had noted the slight, dry cough, the daily brightening cheek; nor could the lustre of the eye, and the airy buoyancy born of fever, deceive her. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Of its diamonds some have an oily lustre and are quite blue--many are of the finest quality and color. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Just then there appeared from a side-door old Mr. Turveydrop, in the full lustre of his deportment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It is desirable, therefore, that it shall be smoothed out and be given somewhat of a lustre before weaving. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The eyes, though deeply sunk and heavy, shone with a lustre frightful to behold. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He seemed the favourite child of fortune, and his untimely loss eclipsed the world, and shewed forth the remnant of mankind with diminished lustre. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Gerty lifted an apprehensive look to her pale face, in which the eyes shone with a peculiar sleepless lustre. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- On me school-triumphs shed but a cold lustre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He liked the ease and glitter of the life, and the lustre conferred on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- There were lustres burning overhead; far off there was a stage, a solemn green curtain, a row of footlights. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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