Spoon
[spuːn] or [spʊn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food.
(noun.) formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.
(noun.) as much as a spoon will hold; 'he added two spoons of sugar'.
(verb.) scoop up or take up with a spoon; 'spoon the sauce over the roast'.
博比編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) See Spoom.
(n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
(n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
(n.) Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
(v. t.) To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
(v. i.) To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
吉塞尔編輯
解釋/意思:
n. an instrument with a shallow bowl and handle for use in preparing serving or in eating food: anything like a spoon or its bowl as an oar: in golf a wooden-headed club of varying length having the face more or less spooned used in approaching the holes from varying distances.—v.t. to use a spoon upon: to lie spoon fashion with.—v.i. to fish with a spoon-hook: in croquet to shove or scoop with the mallet: to be foolishly fond to indulge in endearments openly.—ns. Spoon′-bait a revolving metallic lure attached to a fishing-line by a swivel used in trolling for fish; Spoon′bill a family of birds (Plataleid) allied to the Ibidid and more distantly to the storks with a bill long flat and broad throughout and much dilated in a spoon form at the tip; Spoon′-drift light spray borne on a gale; Spoon′ful as much as fills a spoon: a small quantity:—pl. Spoon′fuls.—adv. Spoon′ily in a spoony or silly way.—n. Spoon′meat food taken with a spoon such as is given to young children.—adv. Spoon′ways applied to a way of packing slaves in ships very closely together.—adjs. Spoon′y Spoon′ey silly weakly affectionate foolishly fond.—n. a simple fellow: one foolishly fond of a sweetheart.—Apostle spoon (see Apostle); Dessert-spoon (see Dessert); Eucharistic spoon the cochlear or labis; Tablespoon (see Table).—Be spoons on to be silly in the manifestation of one's love for a woman.
布莱恩錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see, or use, spoons in a dream, denotes favorable signs of advancement. Domestic affairs will afford contentment. To think a spoon is lost, denotes that you will be suspicious of wrong doing. To steal one, is a sign that you will deserve censure for your contemptible meanness in your home. To dream of broken or soiled spoons, signifies loss and trouble.
约瑟芬校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There's not a fork or a spoon in the collection, said Miss Pross, that I didn't cry over, last night after the box came, till I couldn't see it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Susan dropped the spoon, shook her fist at the vanished figure, and then proceeded with her work in a musing, absent way. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- From this sheet is cut a blank, which bears little resemblance to a spoon, being about half the length of the finished article and very much wider. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And I also told you, if you remember, that I was up to the gold spoon look-out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- This style of spoon was continued, with modifications, through the first third of the eighteenth century. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- This reference is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Exodus, wherein the Lord commanded Moses to make golden spoons for the Tabernacle. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- When spoons are to be plated, they are hung in a bath of silver nitrate side by side with a thick slab of pure silver, as in Figure 209. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Of course we have something in the shape of tea-spoons, because we stir our tea. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There seems no reason why, if in general use, silver forks should not now be as common as spoons. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- As for one dozen well-manufactured silver spoons and forks at per oz. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Sir, I'm very much obliged to you for the caution, and I'll leave particular directions with the servant to lock up the spoons,' replied Mr. Gunter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, about half a pint. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
整理:朱莉安娜