Roach
[rəʊtʃ] or [rotʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) European freshwater food fish having a greenish back.
(noun.) the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
(noun.) a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead.
(verb.) cut the mane off (a horse).
(verb.) comb (hair) into a roach.
校對:马特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A cockroach.
(n.) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
(n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
(n.) The redfin, or shiner.
(n.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
(v. t.) To cause to arch.
(v. t.) To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
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解釋/意思:
n. a silvery fresh-water fish: a concave curve in the foot of a square sail.—v.t. to arch: to cut short.
n. a rock: refuse gritty stone.—As sound as a roach perfectly sound.
校對:维多利亚
例句/造句/用法:
- When this pickerel saw the red roach through the glass, he made one of those awful dashes which is usually the ruin of whatever stands in its way; but he didn't reach the red roach. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- At the end of three-quarters of an hour he seemed a little shaken and discouraged, and stopped, and the red roach was taken out for that day and the pickerel left. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The pickerel doubtless attributed to the roach all this shaking, the rebuff which he had received. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I beg your Honors to read the testimony of Mr. Clarke in the light of the anecdote of the pickerel and the roach. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- At the end of the second day the roach was taken out. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Among the rest he put a pickerel into a tank containing water, and separated across its middle by a transparent glass plate, and on the other side he put a red roach. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- On the succeeding day the red roach was restored, and the pickerel had forgotten the impressions of the first day, and he repeated this again. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is the story of the pickerel and the roach. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The plate glass was then removed, and the pickerel and the red roach sailed around together in perfect peace ever afterward. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For making the dynamos Edison secured, as noted in the preceding chapter, the Roach Iron Works on Goerck Street, New York, and this was also equipped. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mr. Lowrey--Well, perhaps he was a different kind of a roach then; but you didn't succeed in taking him. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Now your Honors both know how a pickerel loves a red roach, and I have no doubt you will remember that he is a fish of a very low forehead and an unlimited appetite. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The place had a bar and six bare tables, and was simply infested with roaches. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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