Sweetmeat
['swiːtmiːt] or ['switmit]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
(n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
(n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
手打:玛里琳
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Confection, comfit, junket, sugar-plum.
艾伯纳錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners'--a local sweetmeat--he presented an oyster-knife at the twins! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- One can gorge sights to repletion as well as sweetmeats. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Chocolat a la Vanille, cried the impenetrable man, cheerfully rattling the sweetmeats in the box, and bowing all round. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
科琳錄入