Tongs
[tɒŋz] or [tɔŋz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below.
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解釋/意思:
(n. pl.) An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.
錄入:赖安
解釋/意思:
n.pl. a domestic instrument consisting of two jointed pieces or shafts of metal used for lifting.
整理:莫尼卡
例句/造句/用法:
- It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- When the process is stopped and the temporary wall in front broken down the bloom is removed with a pair of tongs from the bottom of the furnace. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The tongs made a pleasant clicking sound and I could see Catherine in three mirrors and it was pleasant and warm in the booth. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- You're hammer and tongs, already, you two? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I was so ragged and dirty, that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of tongs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Mrs. Gradgrind faintly looked at the tongs, as the most appropriate thing her imbecility could think of doing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- There, now I'll take off the papers and you'll see a cloud of little ringlets, said Jo, putting down the tongs. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A sort of squeezing apparatus, or tongs, called the alligator, had been employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I'm so sorry, but the tongs were too hot, and so I've made a mess, groaned poor Jo, regarding the little black pancakes with tears of regret. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Seizing with the tongs the image that she had made of Eustacia, she held it in the heat, and watched it as it began to waste slowly away. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Why, I would have laid any bet you like, Mr. Franklin, that your father wouldn't have touched the Colonel with a pair of tongs! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot tongs. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Joseph still continued a huge clattering at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his yellow face would allow him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I saw Madame Fosco, who was making the tea, pause, with the sugar-tongs in her hand, to listen for my answer. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
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