Saucer
['sɔːsə] or ['sɔsɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
(n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.
(n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape.
(n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
(n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
整理:奥蒂斯
解釋/意思:
n. the shallow platter for a tea or coffee cup: anything resembling a saucer as a socket of iron for the pivot of a capstan: (orig.) a small vessel to hold sauce.—adj. Sau′cer-eyed having large round eyes.
校對:米利森特
例句/造句/用法:
- The orderly brought two lighted candles each in a saucer, and took out the lamp blowing it out. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Mrs. Pegler's cup, rattling against her saucer as she held it, denoted some nervousness on her part. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The cat reached forward again and put his fine white paw on the edge of the saucer. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mrs. Corney rose to get another cup and saucer from the closet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Why my hand shook, and why I involuntarily spilt half the contents of my cup into my saucer, I did not choose to consider. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The sight of the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Mix and put in a saucer over a tea-kettle in which water is boiling, until melted, stirring several times. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Take hold of this cup and saucer, ostler. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Hermione poured a little cream into a saucer. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He took up a small saucer of milk which stood on the top of it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, were not wanting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I daresay. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There's salt here, said Laurie, as he handed Jo a saucer of berries. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Do you use your mistress' best saucers for that? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- However, there was no help for it, and the tea-tray came, with seven cups and saucers, and bread-and-butter on the same scale. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There was quite a pile of saucers now on the table in front of me. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It looks as if it might be roofed, from centre to circumference, with inverted saucers. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She pronounced the tea to be excellent, and praised the exquisite taste in which the marmalade was arranged in the saucers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Judy, with a gong-like clash and clatter, sets one of the sheet-iron tea-trays on the table and arranges cups and saucers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For use place in plates or saucers partly filled with water where the flies can get at them. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Flora's tenderness was quite overcome by this, and she launched out among the cups and saucers into a wonderful flow of tears and speech. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr Venus, having wafted his attention to this discourse over three successive saucers of tea, signified his concurrence in the views advanced. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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