Urn
[ɜːn] or [ɝn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
(noun.) a large pot for making coffee or tea.
手打:齐妮亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.
(n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
(n.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.
(n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
(n.) A tea urn. See under Tea.
(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
克洛伊校對
解釋/意思:
n. a rounded or angular vase having a foot a water vessel an electoral vase a tea-urn &c.: a vessel in which the ashes of the dead were anciently deposited hence the grave.—v.t. to enclose in an urn.—adj. Urn′al.—n. Urn′ful as much as an urn will hold.—adj. Urn′-shaped having the shape of an urn.
伊内兹手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of an urn, foretells you will prosper in some respects, and in others disfavor will be apparent. To see broken urns, unhappiness will confront you.
校對:马尔科姆
例句/造句/用法:
- So long did he linger, that the very urn died; it ceased to hiss. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His brothers then, and friends, the snowy bones, Gather'd into an urn of gold, still pouring out their moans. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I observed the speechless panic, the cups shaking in the little hand, and the overflowing teapot filled too full from the urn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Temple Bar gets so hot that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fleet Street, what a heater is in an urn, and keeps them simmering all night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I shall not get my deserts, for the urn sings cheerily. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- We worship the Naiad with her urn as well as Bacchus with his flask, and the union of both produces a drink fit for Father Zeus. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Then wrapt they in soft purple veils the rich urn, digg'd a pit, Grav'd it, built up the grave with stones, and quickly piled on it A barrow. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These are sold in various patterns from the Colonial design, like the illustration shown (Fig. 11), to those patterned after the Grecian urn. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Mrs Lammle's innocent appeal was merely thrown into the air, to mingle with the steam of the urn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When Clym came home, which was shortly after, his mother said, in a curious tone, The urn you had meant for me you gave away. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- And mun we have th' urn? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I came to her aid, took a seat near her, managed the urn and the slop-basin, and in fact made the tea for her like any old woman. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Urn, said the doctor with the beard. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In the modernly equipped factories one finds electric flat irons, velvet steamers and coffee urns. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
整理:默娜