Pebble
['peb(ə)l] or ['pɛbl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
(n.) Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
(v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Stone (of small size), pebble-stone.
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解釋/意思:
n. a small roundish ball or stone: transparent and colourless rock-crystal used for glass in spectacles a fine kind of glass: a large size of gunpowder.—v.t. to give (to leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.—adjs. Pebb′led Pebb′ly full of pebbles.—ns. Pebb′le-pow′der gunpowder consisting of large cubical grains and burning slowly—also Cube-powder and Prismatic-powder; Pebb′le-ware a kind of fine pottery made of various coloured clays mixed together; Pebb′ling a way of graining leather with a ribbed or roughened appearance.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
For a young woman to dream of a pebble-strewn walk, she will be vexed with many rivals and find that there are others with charms that attract besides her own. She who dreams of pebbles is selfish and should cultivate leniency towards others' faults.
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例句/造句/用法:
- A quiet pool and a pebble will help to make it clear to us. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- An onion is an onion is an onion, Robert Jordan said cheerily and, he thought, a stone is a stein is a rock is a boulder is a pebble. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- If we throw a pebble into a quiet pool (Fig. 90), waves or ripples form and spread out in all directions, gradually dying out as they become more and more distant from the pebble. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- If a pebble is thrown into a quiet pool, it creates ripples or waves which spread outward in all directions, but which soon die out, leaving the pool again placid and undisturbed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Look also at the innumerable fish that are swimming in the clear waters, where we can distinguish every pebble that lies at the bottom. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discolored metal and several dull-colored pieces of pebble or glass. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- A sharp pebble flew by her, grazing forehead and cheek, and drawing a blinding sheet of light before her eyes. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He had come forward after throwing the last pebble, and the fire now shone into each of their faces from the bank stretching breast-high between them. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But I will put a pebble in my mouth to make is less likely. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- If you wish to be sure of this, throw the pebble near a spot where a chip lies quiet on the smooth pond. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She seemed to look at him as at a pebble far away under clear dark water. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The pebble parable of Sir Isaac Newton will here occur to many minds, and it applies as truly to our times as to his own. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- If now we could quickly withdraw the pebble from the pool, the water would again be disturbed and waves would form. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He threw a pebble in the direction signified. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Did the Azilians play with these pebbles or tell a story with them, as imaginative children will do with bits of wood and stone nowadays? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He got all those pebbles on the sea shore, abreast the ship, but professes to have gathered them from one of our party. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The use or significance of these Azilian pebbles is still a profound mystery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At the shore, where the ice has been partly forced out along the banks, it will be full of grass, leaves, pebbles and sticks, and presents a broken and frosted appearance. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Of course, it must have been the old metal and pebbles which my client had dragged from the mere. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The spinster aunt trembled, till some pebbles which had accidentally found their way into the large watering-pot shook like an infant's rattle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- As soon as Venn found his feet dragging over the pebbles of the shallower part below he secured his footing and waded towards the brink. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings of an unknown purport (see illus. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We went on again, picking up shells and pebbles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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