Ottoman
['ɑtəmən]
['ɒtəmən] or ['ɑtəmən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) thick cushion used as a seat.
(noun.) the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I.
(noun.) a Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I).
(adj.) of or relating to the Ottoman Empire or its people or its culture .
手打:梅尔瓦--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.
(n.) A Turk.
(n.) A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.
校對:内尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Turk.
a. Turkish.
編輯:特鲁迪
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to the Turkish Empire founded by Othman or Osman about 1299.—n. a Turk (Shak. Ott′omite): a cushioned seat for several persons sitting with their backs to one another: a low stuffed seat without a back: a variety of corded silk.
整理:默尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Dreams in which you find yourself luxuriously reposing upon an ottoman, discussing the intricacies of love with your sweetheart, foretells that envious rivals will seek to defame you in the eyes of your affianced, and a hasty marriage will be advised. See Couch.
手打:莱曼
例句/造句/用法:
- The relations between the Ottoman Sultans and the Emperors has been singular in the annals of Moslem and Christian states. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Left alone, she threw herself back on her ottoman, and said, 'I didn't know the lovely woman was such a Dragon! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The Ottoman Turk had even taken to the sea, and fought the Venetian upon his own Mediterranean waters. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She was on a low ottoman before the fire, with a little shining jewel of a table, and her book and her work, beside her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Gradually the Ottoman princes consolidated an empire that reached from the Taurus mountains in the east to Hungary and Roumania in the west. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Only three or four of us were up to see the great Ottoman capital. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Adams was so embarrassed that he fell over an ottoman. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Under him the Ottoman power reached its zenith. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She made me lie down on the couch, and, drawing a low ottoman near, sat close to my pillow, pressing my burning hands in her cold palms. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around us under the inhuman tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They may have been dislodged from their original homeland--as the Ottoman Turks were--by the great cataclysm of Jengis or even earlier. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- On the side nearest to the terrace there stood a low ottoman, on which I took my place. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The Ottoman Turks were a little band of fugitives who fled southwesterly before the first invasion of Western Turkestan by Jengis. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Don't sit on the ottoman, the young lady proceeded. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Under this ascendancy Egypt remained an independent power until 1517, when it fell to the Ottoman Turks. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The ottomans, which were uniformly placed, were covered with satin to correspond with the drapery, and fringed with silver. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The Ottomans organized a standing military force, the Janissaries, rather on the lines of the Mamelukes who dominated Egypt. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And the old tea-chests stuffed and covered for ottomans! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
整理:奥蒂斯