Tod
[tɑd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds.
(adj.) alone and on your own; 'don't just sit there on your tod' .
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.
(n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
(n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
(v. t. & i.) To weigh; to yield in tods.
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解釋/意思:
n. (Scot.) a fox.—n. Todlow′rie a fox a crafty fellow.
n. an ivy-bush—(Spens.) Todde: an old weight of about 28 lb.—v.i. to weigh a tod.
編輯:路易斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I have often heard him speak of Mrs. Tod as the most admirable woman he had ever known. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He remained with the Tod family only a few years, until old enough to learn a trade. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In the present times, one-and-twenty shillings the tod may be reckoned a good price for very good English wool. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A tax of five, or even of ten shillings, upon the exportation of every tod of wool, would produce a very considerable revenue to the sovereign. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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