Toy
[tɒɪ] or [tɔɪ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a device regarded as providing amusement; 'private airplanes are a rich man's toy'.
(noun.) a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier); 'a toy stove'.
(verb.) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; 'She played nervously with her wedding ring'; 'Don't fiddle with the screws'; 'He played with the idea of running for the Senate'.
安編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.
(v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
(v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
(v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
(v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.
(v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
(v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
(v. t.) To treat foolishly.
艾迪整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Plaything, bawble, gewgaw, trinket, knicknack, gimcrack, JIGGUM-BOB.[2]. Trifle, bagatelle, bubble, small matter.
v. n. Trifle, dally, sport, wanton, play.
錄入:诺兰
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Bauble, trifle, bagatelle, gewgaw, plaything
ANT:Implement, utensil, weapon
編輯:斯坦利
解釋/意思:
n. a child's plaything: a trifle: a thing only for amusement or look: a curious conceit a story: a matter of no importance: amorous sport.—v.i. to trifle: to dally amorously.—n. Toy′er one who toys.—adj. Toy′ish given to toying or trifling: playful: wanton.—adv. Toy′ishly.—ns. Toy′ishness; Toy′man one who deals in toys; Toy′shop a shop where toys are sold.—adj. Toy′some disposed to toy: wanton.
詹尼弗編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new, but if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow. To see children at play with toys, marriage of a happy nature is indicated. To give away toys in your dreams, foretells you will be ignored in a social way by your acquaintances.
編輯:苏珊娜
例句/造句/用法:
- Then Becquerel was next visited, but he was nearly blind and could see nothing in the new optical toy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It was, that Dora seemed by one consent to be regarded like a pretty toy or plaything. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In fact, it has become the familiar scientific toy of man, woman, and child, interesting, instructive, and useful to all. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Human beings have desires that are far more important than the tools and toys and churches they make to satisfy them. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Hence it will be obvious that these toys produced merely an ILLUSION of THEORETICAL motion. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Rawdon bought the boy plenty of picture-books and crammed his nursery with toys. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- His toys had been soldiers and guns. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children's toys are kept in. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- As to constructing toys for the Minders, out of nothing, he had done that daily. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On this occasion they wandered to the album, and toyed absently about the margin of the little water-colour drawing. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, said Waldemar, who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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