Stony
['stəʊnɪ] or ['stoni]
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
(superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
(superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
錄入:斯蒂芬妮
例句/造句/用法:
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- For the cart so hard to draw is near its journey's end and drags over stony ground. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Not one of her relations, for they lay glaring on her with stony eyes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A pot of green bottle-glass had been allowed to cool slowly with the result that it had a stony, rather than a vitreous stru cture. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Many and many a sorrowful story like this these stony walls could tell if they could but speak. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Let her go,--with her stony heart, and her beauty;--how set and terrible her look is now, for all her loveliness of feature! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Sir Leicester, leaning back in his chair and grasping the elbows, sits looking at him with a stony face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For a moment she was stony with fear. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I raised his rigid limbs, I marked the distortion of his face, and the stony eyes lost to perception. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
錄入:里基