Oar
[ɔː] or [ɔr]
解釋/意思:
(n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
(n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
(n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
(v. t. & i.) To row.
錄入:默多克
解釋/意思:
n. a light pole with a flat feather or spoon-shaped end (the blade) for propelling a boat: an oar-like appendage for swimming as the antenn?of an insect or crustacean &c.: an oarsman.—v.t. to impel by rowing.—v.i. to row.—n. Oar′age oars collectively.—adj. Oared furnished with oars.—ns. Oar′lap a rabbit with its ears standing out at right-angles to the head; Oar′-lock a rowlock; Oars′man one who rows with an oar; Oars′manship skill in rowing.—adj. Oar′y having the form or use of oars.—Boat oars to bring the oars inboard; Feather oars to turn the blades parallel to the water when reaching back for another stroke; Lie on the oars to cease rowing without shipping the oars: to rest take things easily: to cease from work; Put in one's oar to give advice when not wanted; Ship or Unship oars to place the oars in the rowlocks or to take them out.
錄入:威廉敏娜
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of handling oars, portends disappointments for you, inasmuch as you will sacrifice your own pleasure for the comfort of others. To lose an oar, denotes vain efforts to carry out designs satisfactorily. A broken oar represents interruption in some anticipated pleasure.
手打:温迪
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A popular device for catching crabs.
艾德蒙編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- I urged my companions to prepare for the wreck of our little skiff, and to bind themselves to some oar or spar which might suffice to float them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I went back to the stern and showed her how to hold the oar. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- But some of the poorer free citizens followed mechanic arts, and, as we have already noted, would even pull an oar in a galley for pay. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He lifted the oar to bring it back. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Dip an oar, and its blade turns to splendid frosted silver, tinted with blue. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Spread the sail, and strain with oar, hurrying by dark impending crags, adown steep rapids, even to the sea of desolation I have reached. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- First one oar is backing water, and then the other; it is seldom that both are going ahead at once. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I threw down the oar; and, leaning my head upon my hands, gave way to every gloomy idea that arose. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I unhooked the handle from the seat, laid the umbrella in the bow and went back to Catherine for the oar. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Gerald automatically took the oar and pushed off. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I took the oar. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- You take this oar and hold it under your arm close to the side of the boat and steer and I'll hold the umbrella. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The man carried something over his shoulder which might have been a broken oar, or spar, or bar, and took no notice of him, but passed on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the town. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Feeling that she had not mended matters much, Amy took the offered third of a seat, shook her hair over her face, and accepted an oar. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He was always first oars with the fine city ladies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- So, they plied their oars once more, and I looked out for anything like a house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Finally my hands were so sore I could hardly close them over the oars. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Then a dozen sailors bent to the oars and pulled rapidly toward the point where Tarzan crouched in the branches of a tree. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Besides, the nights are so still, that the sound of oars can easily be heard a long way off, especially by men trained to hear like my Greeks. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I pulled in the oars, took hold of an iron ring, stepped up on the wet stone and was in Switzerland. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- But suppose Alcibiades uses no oars? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I could see Catherine in the stern but I could not see the water where the blades of the oars dipped. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Sometimes I missed the water with the oars in the dark as a wave lifted the boat. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I held the oars up and we sailed with them. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I could take the oars awhile. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I did not feather the oars because the wind was with us. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- If the crew laughed, the Malays did not, and when the captain of one of the proas was struck by a rocket, both crafts rested oars and came no nearer. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- That room was their boat; that audience were the maidens; and he (Mr. Anthony Humm), however unworthily, was 'first oars' (unbounded applause). 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He had rejected the plan of using paddles or oars, and also of forcing water out of the stern of the vessel, and had retained the idea of the paddle-wheel. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
錄入:保拉