Tobacco
[tə'bækəʊ] or [tə'bæko]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
(noun.) aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs.
卡里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
(n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
手打:默文
解釋/意思:
n. a plant of genus Nicotiana order Solanace esp. one of several species the most generally cultivated being the stately Nicotiana Tabacum a native of America—the dried leaves used for the sedative effects for smoking in pipes &c. and also in the form of snuff.—ns. Tobaccanā′lian a smoker; Tobacc′o-heart a functional disorder of the heart due to excessive use of tobacco; Tobacc′onist one who sells or manufactures tobacco; Tobacc′o-pipe a pipe used for smoking tobacco; Tobacc′o-pouch a small pouch for holding tobacco; Tobacc′o-stop′per an instrument for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of tobacco, denotes success in business affairs, but poor returns in love. To use it, warns you against enemies and extravagance. To see it growing, foretells successful enterprises. To see it dry in the leaf, ensures good crops to farmers, and consequent gain to tradesmen. To smoke tobacco, denotes amiable friendships.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
A nauseating plant that is consumed by but two creatures; a large, green worm and—man. The worm doesn't know any better.
校對:斯宾塞
例句/造句/用法:
- The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I never smoke myself, so I think I should have observed it if there had been any smell of tobacco. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- On these trains I employed a boy who sold bread, tobacco, and stick candy. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Never smoke any Italian tobacco. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Tobacco and my work--that is all that is left to me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Ah, a scent of tobacco would have been worth a great deal to us in such an investigation. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of the old gentleman, unshorn and perfumed with tobacco, might well do. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Yet, the smell of a _Yahoo_ continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The production of coal gas, and the development of its properties at different stages of distillation, may be readily shown by means of a common tobacco pipe. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Miss Bart caught the startled glance of Mr. Percy Gryce, whose own lips were never defiled by tobacco. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Gold and silver, therefore, very seldom appear in the commerce between Great Britain and the tobacco colonies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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