Olive
['ɒlɪv] or ['ɑlɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation.
(noun.) one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish.
(noun.) hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork.
(noun.) evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits.
(noun.) small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil.
(adj.) of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive .
整理:李奥娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.
(n.) The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.
(n.) Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.
(n.) The oyster catcher.
(n.) The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
(n.) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
(n.) An olivary body. See under Olivary.
(n.) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
(a.) Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
琼整理
解釋/意思:
n. a tree cultivated round the Mediterranean for its oily fruit: its fruit: peace of which the olive was the emblem: a colour like the unripe olive.—adj. of a brownish-green colour like the olive.—adjs. Olivā′ceous olive-coloured: olive-green; Ol′ivary like olives.—ns. Ol′ivenite a mineral consisting chiefly of arsenic acid and protoxide of iron; Ol′ive-oil oil pressed from the fruit of the olive; Ol′ive-yard a piece of ground on which olives are grown; Ol′ivine chrysolite.—Olive branch a symbol of peace: (pl.) children (Ps. cxxviii. 4; Pr. Bk.).
錄入:弗农
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Gathering olives with a merry band of friends, foretells favorable results in business, and delightful surprises. If you take them from bottles, it foretells conviviality To break a bottle of olives, indicates disappointments on the eve of pleasure. To eat them, signifies contentment and faithful friends.
巴里整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The peninsula of Italy was not then the smiling land of vineyards and olive orchards it has since become. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Commercial soaps are made from a great variety of substances, such as tallow, lard, castor oil, coconut oil, olive oil, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Your face was never lily fair, but it is olive green now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The rest of his letter is only about his dear Charlotte's situation, and his expectation of a young olive-branch. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The best-known fats are butter, lard, olive oil, and the fats of meats, cheese, and chocolate. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Britain need envy neither the vineyards of France, nor the olive plantations of Italy. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Maurice, you ought to give me your crown, so that myrtle and olive inspire me with the breath of the god. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Those who like Ellen Key and Olive Shreiner and Mrs. Gilman give them real problems to think about are drafting that energy into use. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And the child delivered a note; the little dove dropped on my knee, its olive leaf plucked off. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- An ounce of fat, whether it is the fat of meat or the fat of olive oil or the fat of any other food, produces in the body two and a quarter times as much heat as an ounce of starch. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He was a brown spot in the midst of an expanse of olive-green gorse, and nothing more. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He was a tall fellow, with an olive complexion, long dark hair, and very thick bushy whiskers meeting under his chin. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- When depressed, the very hue of his face seemed more dusk than when he smiled, and to-day cheek and forehead wore their most tintless and sober olive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Bottles can be so shaped that they make the olives, pickles, and peaches that they contain appear larger than they really are. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Helena, however, solved the problem, and hastily twisted together a wreath of wild olives, which she placed lightly on his bent head. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I ate olives, salted almonds and potato chips and looked at myself in civilian clothes in the mirror behind the bar. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- So did everyone else, even 'Croaker' as the girls called the old lady, and the unfortunate dinner ended gaily, with bread and butter, olives and fun. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- From the mountain's peak its broken turrets rise above the groves of ancient oaks and olives, and look wonderfully picturesque. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:沃尔多