Skull
[skʌl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A school, company, or shoal.
(n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
(n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
(n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
(n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Cranium, brain-pan.
校對:齐利格
解釋/意思:
n. the bony case that encloses the brain: the head the sconce noddle: a crust formed on the ladle &c. by the partial cooling of molten metal: in armour the crown of the head-piece: (Scot.) a shallow bow-handled basket.—n. Skull′cap a cap which fits closely to the head: the sinciput.—adj. Skull′-less.—Skull and cross-bones a symbolic emblem of death and decay.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of skulls grinning at you, is a sign of domestic quarrels and jars. Business will feel a shrinkage if you handle them. To see a friend's skull, denotes that you will receive injury from a friend because of your being preferred to him. To see your own skull, denotes that you will be the servant of remorse.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Bois-Guilbert's new shield bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto, Gare le Corbeau. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was something curiously indecent, obscene, about her small, longish, dark skull, particularly when the ears showed. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It was a grinning human skull which looked up at them from the ground. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- They put his skull in a tree and they ask him to forgive them before they leave it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He tapped his skull beside his eye with one finger. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- There was an ugly flesh wound, but no signs of a fracture of the skull. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The top of a skull, some teeth, and a thigh-bone have been found. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gooseberry, said the Sergeant, patting his head, you have got something in that small skull of yours--and it isn't cotton-wool. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Then he took a skull and held it in his hand, and looked reflectively upon it, after the manner of the grave-digger when he discourses of Yorick. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You want it all in that loathsome little skull of yours, that ought to be cracked like a nut. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- We should remember that the skull at this early age is cartilaginous and flexible, so that it readily yields to muscular action. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Skulls, warious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Strapped on either breast were human skulls and depending from these a number of dried human hands. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- In the region of the Doubs and of the Dordogne in France, many individuals are to be met with to this day with skulls of the Cro-Magnon type. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Several human skulls lay upon the floor. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Joe, do you seriously think all the wisdom in the world is lodged in male skulls? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Pyramids of skulls were his particular architectural fancy; after the storming of Ispahan he made one of 70,000. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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