Velvet
['velvɪt] or ['vɛlvɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back.
(adj.) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface .
(adj.) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste .
整理:罗莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
(n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
(a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
(v. i.) To pain velvet.
(v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.
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解釋/意思:
n. a cloth made from silk with a close shaggy pile: a similar cloth made of cotton: the velvet-like covering of a growing antler: (slang) money gained by gambling.—adj. made of velvet: soft like velvet.—ns. Vel′veret a poor quality of velvet the web of cotton the pile of silk; Velveteen′ a fustian made of twilled cotton with a pile of the same material: a kind of velvet made of silk and cotton mixed throughout; Vel′vet-flower the love-lies-bleeding.—n.pl. Vel′vet-guards (Shak.) velvet trimmings applied metaphorically to the citizens who wore them.—ns. Vel′veting the nap of velvet: (pl.) velvet goods collectively; Vel′vet-leaf the Indian mallow; Vel′vet-pā′per flock paper; Vel′vet-pile any material with a long soft nap; Vel′vet-scō′ter a kind of black duck with large white spot on the wings; Vel′vet-work embroidery on velvet.—adj. Vel′vety made of or like velvet: soft: soft in taste or touch.—Stand on velvet to place one's bets in such a way as not to loose in any event.
整理:怀亚特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of velvet, portends very successful enterprises. If you wear it, some distinction will be conferred upon you. To see old velvet, means your prosperity will suffer from your extreme pride. If a young woman dreams that she is clothed in velvet garments, it denotes that she will have honors bestowed upon her, and the choice between several wealthy lovers.
整理:马文
例句/造句/用法:
- Sir Percival looked seriously embarrassed and distressed, Mr. Fairlie stretched out his lazy legs on his velvet footstool, and said, Dear Marian! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The whole covers a crimson velvet cap with an ermine border. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And what's this with a grey gown and a black velvet cap? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She had on a black velvet polonaise with jet buttons, and a tiny green monkey muff; I never saw her so stylishly dressed, Janey continued. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Paul, for light enough still lingered to show the velvet blackness of his close-shorn head, and the sallow ivory of his brow) looked in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At the Opera I know she had on dark blue velvet, perfectly plain and flat--like a night-gown. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The eight-pointed cross of his order was cut on the shoulder of his mantle in black velvet. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In a short time a white metallic image is obtained, which, when relieved by a background of black velvet or black varnish, equals in delicacy of finish the most beautiful Daguerreotypes. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Around her neck was a narrow black velvet ribbon with the ends falling down her back. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The young man felt a touch on his arm and saw Mrs. van der Luyden looking down on him from the pure eminence of black velvet and the family diamonds. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- You can buy enough velvet in Genoa for twenty-five dollars to make a five hundred dollar cloak in New York--so the ladies tell me. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He wore a semi-military smoking jacket, claret-coloured, with a black velvet collar. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I caught glimpses of velvet chairs, a high white marble mantel-piece, and what seemed to be a suit of Japanese armor at one side of it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The remaining portion of the lady is encased in a dark-colored skirt (black velvet is the best), and her feet are firmly strapped to a wood rest at the back of the cabinet, as shown in Fig.?2. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- But Genoa's greatness has degenerated into an unostentatious commerce in velvets and silver filagree-work. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There would be no occasion to prohibit the importation of foreign silks and velvets. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Lyons velvets rank higher in America than those of Genoa. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
錄入:米尔顿