Welsh
[welʃ] or [wɛlʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales.
(noun.) a Celtic language of Wales.
(verb.) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language; 'the Welsh coast'; 'Welsh syntax' .
卡莱尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
(n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
(n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
安娜贝拉錄入
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to Wales or its inhabitants.—n.pl. the inhabitants of Wales:—sing. their language.—ns. Welsh′-harp a large instrument furnished with three rows of strings two tuned in unison and in the diatonic scale the third in the sharps and flats of the chromatic; Welsh′-hook an old weapon like the bill; Welsh′man a native of Wales; Welsh′-on′ion the cibol a perennial plant with a garlic taste; Welsh′-rabb′it (see Rabbit).
v.t. and v.i. to run off from a race-course without settling or paying one's bets—also Welch.—ns. Welsh′er Welch′er.
編輯:马里奥
例句/造句/用法:
- In Britain, England carried on her back the Hanoverian dominions in Germany, Scotland, the profoundly alien Welsh and the hostile and Catholic Irish. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Now I suspected that she was very cunning, next moment I believed her honest Welsh heart to be perfectly innocent and simple. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Though I never knew what they were (being in Welsh), further than that they were highly eulogistic of the lineage of Morgan ap-Kerrig. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She was of Welsh blood, fiery and passionate. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Many of our Welsh people are going to settle in North Carolina, where land is cheap. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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