Moss
[mɒs] or [mɔs]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
(n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
(v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.
錄入:诺兰
解釋/意思:
n. a family of flowerless plants with branching stems and narrow simple leaves: popularly any small cryptogamic plant esp. a lichen: a piece of ground covered with moss: a bog.—v.t. to cover with moss.—ns. Moss′-back an old fish: a person of antiquated views; Moss′-cheep′er (Scot.) the titlark.—adj. Moss′-grown covered with moss.—ns. Moss′-hag (Scot.) a pit or slough in a bog; Moss′iness; Moss′-land land abounding in peat-bogs; Moss′-rose a variety of rose having a moss-like growth on and below the calyx; Moss′troop′er one of the robbers that used to infest the mosses of the Border.—adj. Moss′y overgrown or abounding with moss.—Iceland moss (see Iceland).
編輯:雷金纳德
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of moss, denotes that you will fill dependent positions, unless the moss grows in rich soil, when you will be favored with honors.
整理:奥利维亚
例句/造句/用法:
- In a moment they saw him, and then me; but scarcely had they discovered me than I commenced firing, lying flat upon my belly in the moss. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Miss Moss, a dark-eyed maid in curl-papers, appeared with the teapot, and, smiling, asked the Colonel how he had slep? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Victor and vanquished rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Upon this lay a thick layer of moss, leaves, or sawdust. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Even the land about Chat Moss was bought up and improved, and all along the line what had been waste stretches began to blossom into towns and villages. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- An immense bog, called Chat Moss, had to be crossed, and Stephenson was the only one of the engineers concerned who did not doubt whether such a crossing were really possible. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I was NABBED by Moss of Cursitor Street--from whose GILT AND SPLENDID PARLER I write this--the same that had me this time two years. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The clear, cold sunshine glances into the brittle woods and approvingly beholds the sharp wind scattering the leaves and drying the moss. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A jagged stone was lying among the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I alighted upon the soft moss easily and without mishap, and turning saw my enemies lined up along the further wall. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The lower mosses must live in damp, and even the development of the spore of the ferns demands at certain stages extreme wetness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The great sweep in front of the terrace and entrance stair was black and covered with mosses; the once trim flower-beds rank and weedy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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