Tassel
['tæs(ə)l] or ['tæsl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A male hawk. See Tercel.
(n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
(n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
(n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
(n.) A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.
(n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
(v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
(v. t.) To adorn with tassels.
恩里克錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a hanging ornament consisting of a bunch of silk or other material: anything like a tassel: the silk or ribbon-marker of a book: a thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.—v.t. to attach a tassel to to ornament with tassels.—adj. Tass′elled adorned with tassels.
校對:弗恩
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see tassels in a dream, denotes you will reach the height of your desires and ambition. For a young woman to lose them, denotes she will undergo some unpleasant experience.
編輯:齐克
例句/造句/用法:
- Formerly ensilage corn was cut shortly after the tassel appeared. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- My dear, said the cotton-tassel in defence of his conduct, Jos is a great deal vainer than you ever were in your life, and that's saying a good deal. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There is a purse in that little satin bag; I see the tassel of silver beads hanging out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was too rheumatic to be shaken hands with, but he begged me to shake the tassel on the top of his nightcap, which I did most cordially. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Nothing, ma'am, upon my honour,' said Mr. Pickwick, nodding his head so energetically, that the tassel of his nightcap danced again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- With great respect, I laid the bonnet on the desk, where its tassel seemed to give me an awful nod. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Even Eugene standing in a window, moodily swinging the tassel of a blind, gives it a smarter jerk now, as if he found himself in better case. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When we came back from Tangier, in Africa, we were topped with fezzes of the bloodiest hue, hung with tassels like an Indian's scalp-lock. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Yes, and after I had cut the tassels of his boots too. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Do you remember, Sedley, what a fury you were in, when I cut off the tassels of your Hessian boots, and how Miss--hem! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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