Walnut
['wɔːlnʌt] or ['wɔlnət]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell.
(noun.) any of various trees of the genus Juglans.
(noun.) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling.
錄入:萨姆纳--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.
錄入:帕特里斯
解釋/意思:
n. a genus (Juglans) comprising seven or eight species of beautiful trees of natural order Juglandace—the wood of the common walnut is much used for furniture and gunstocks; its ripe fruit is one of the best of nuts and yields an oil used by artists &c.—Black walnut a North American walnut the timber of which is more valuable than that of common walnut though the fruit is inferior.
巴罗錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of walnuts, is an omen significant of prolific joys and favors. To dream that you crack a decayed walnut, denotes that your expectations will end in bitterness and regretable collapse. For a young woman to dream that she has walnut stain on her hands, foretells that she will see her lover turn his attention to another, and she will entertain only regrets for her past indiscreet conduct.
亚历克斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The old walnut trees are all come down to make room for it. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He had hung out his sign as Painter of Miniatures at the corner of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, under the friendly patronage of Benjamin Franklin. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- There was very little in the room except a couple of walnut roller-top desks--which were very generally used in American offices at that time. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The old-fashioned chairs were very bright, and the walnut-wood table was like a looking-glass. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- On the 19th General Taylor, with is army, was encamped at Walnut Springs, within three miles of Monterey. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A little walnut bark has made my yellow skin a genteel brown, and I've dyed my hair black; so you see I don't answer to the advertisement at all. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- My Austrian sniper's rifle with its blued octagon barrel and the lovely dark walnut, cheek-fitted, schutzen stock, hung over the two beds. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- We retreated to get out of fire, not backward, but eastward and perpendicular to the direct road running into the city from Walnut Springs. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- To the north, between the city and Walnut Springs, stretches an extensive plain. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Our camps at Walnut Springs, three miles away, were guarded by a company from each regiment. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sherman's line of march led him to the very point on Walnut Hills occupied by the enemy the December before when he was repulsed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I was regimental quartermaster at the time and was ordered to remain in charge of camp and the public property at Walnut Springs. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- If Beaufort-- Archer sprang up, his fist banging down on the black walnut-edge of the writing-table. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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