Sheffield
['ʃefi:ld]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry.
錄入:罗兰--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- Consul at Sheffield, England, reported that a new steel had been introduced there for use in making table cutlery. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In Sheffield, no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Many of the old family pieces of Sheffield have found their way into the melting pot in exchange for the modern electro-plated silverware. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- No, said the Jester, grinning, but they may reach Sheffield if they have good luck, and that is as fit a place for them. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Be it so, said the Palmer; at Sheffield then we part, and half-an-hour's riding will bring us in sight of that town. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It replaced in many households pewter ware which, until the introduction of Sheffield plate, was the best substitute for sterling silver. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We are now not far from the town of Sheffield, where thou mayest easily find many of thy tribe with whom to take refuge. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- They parted, and took different roads for the town of Sheffield. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The process of making cast steel was reinvented in England by Benjamin Huntsman of Attercliff, near Sheffield, about 1740. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Nor do I recollect that Mr. Murdstone laughed at all that day, except at the Sheffield joke--and that, by the by, was his own. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Horace Walpole, writing in 1760, states: I passed through Sheffield, a business town in a charming situation, with 22,000 inhabitants, and they remit £11,000 a week to London. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:莫蒂默