Marble
['mɑːb(ə)l] or ['mɑrbl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a small ball of glass that is used in various games.
(noun.) a sculpture carved from marble.
(noun.) a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material.
(verb.) paint or stain like marble; 'marble paper'.
編輯:罗德里克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
(n.) A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
(n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
(a.) Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
(a.) Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
(n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
海勒姆手打
解釋/意思:
n. any species of limestone taking a high polish: that which is made of marble as a work of art: a little ball used by boys in play.—adj. made of marble: veined like marble: hard: insensible.—v.t. to stain or vein like marble.—adjs. Mar′ble-breast′ed hard-hearted cruel; Mar′ble-con′stant constant or firm as marble immovable.—n. Mar′ble-cut′ter one who hews marble: a machine for cutting marble.—adjs. Mar′ble-edged having the edges marbled as a book; Mar′ble-heart′ed hard-hearted insensible.—ns. Mar′ble-pā′per paper coloured in imitation of variegated marble; Mar′bler; Mar′bling the act of veining or painting in imitation of marble.—adv. Mar′bly resembling marble in the manner of marble.—Elgin marbles a collection of marbles obtained chiefly from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in 1811 now in the British Museum.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a marble quarry, denotes that you life will be a financial success, but that your social surroundings will be devoid of affection. To dream of polishing marble, you will come into a pleasing inheritance. To see it broken, you will fall into disfavor among your associates by defying all moral codes.
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例句/造句/用法:
- At nine o'clock in the morning we went and stood before this marble colossus. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A large marble tomb would not please me. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Paler than marble, with white lips and convulsed features, Idris became aware of my situation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The new cushions are a great improvement upon the hard marble seats we have been so long accustomed to. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Making carbon dioxide from marble and hydrochloric acid. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He obtained, by fusion, a crystalline carbonate resembling marble. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the wood and coal we burn, the marble we employ in building, the indispensable soap, and the ornamental diamond, all contain carbon in some form. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- What did she mean by that allusion to the cold people who petrify flesh to marble? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She cried fit to break her heart; her ringlets fell over her face, and over the marble mantelpiece where she laid it. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This is not a time for a lady, however highly connected, to be totally inaudible, and seemingly swallowing marbles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It is built entirely of precious marbles, brought from the Orient --nothing in its composition is domestic. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
整理:内莉