Porcelain
['pɔːs(ə)lɪn] or ['pɔsəlen]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Purslain.
(n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
鲍里斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. China, china ware.
校對:凯尔西
解釋/意思:
n. a fine earthenware white thin semi-transparent first made in China: china-ware.—adj. of the nature of porcelain.—adjs. Por′celānous Porcellā′neous Por′cellānous.—n. Por′cellanite a very hard impure jaspideous rock.—Cast or Fusible porcelain a milky glass made of silica and cryolite with oxide of zinc; Egg-shell porcelain an extremely thin and translucent porcelain; False porcelain a name given to the artificial or soft-paste porcelain; Frit porcelain a name given to artificial soft-paste English porcelain from its vitreous nature; Tender porcelain a ware imitating hard-paste or natural porcelain.
手打:鲁迪
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of porcelain, signifies you will have favorable opportunities of progressing in your affairs. To see it broken or soiled, denotes mistakes will be made which will cause grave offense.
吉米編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The most important advance in the art was in the invention of the rubber plate for holding the porcelain teeth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- These fishes are reared by the Chinese in small ponds, in basins or porcelain vessels, and kept for ornament. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In filtration, the water is forced through porcelain or other porous substances which allow the passage of water, but which hold back the minute foreign particles suspended in the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Wedgwood invented the hard porcelain surface, and very many beautiful designs. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- As in drying clay for brick, so in drying clay for porcelain and pottery generally, great improvements have been made in the drying of the clay, and other materials to be mixed therewith. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Shall it be jewellery or porcelain, haberdashery or silver? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It consists of impressing oil pictures on a bat of glue and then pressing the bat on to the porous unbaked clay or porcelain which transferred the colours. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Still later Hall introduced chalk and powdered limestone into porcelain tubes, gun barrels, and tubes bored in solid iron, which he sealed and brought to very high temperatures. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There was a score of candles sparkling round the mantel piece, in all sorts of quaint sconces, of gilt and bronze and porcelain. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In 1788 he was made inspector-general of French manufactures, later superintendent of the porcelain works at Sèvres. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Susan Frackelton of the United States invented a portable kiln for firing pottery and porcelain, for which she obtained a patent in 1886. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Mrs. Guttingen came into the room early in the morning to shut the windows and started a fire in the tall porcelain stove. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The decomposed felspar of some varieties of granite yields the kaolin used in porcelain manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
安編輯