Whisker
['wɪskə] or ['wɪskɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.
整理:洛蒂--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
(n.) Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.
(n.) A hair of the beard.
(n.) One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
(n.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
整理:利亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Red Whisker made his salad (I wondered how they could eat it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- One curl of a girl's ringlet, one hair of a whisker, will turn the scale against them all in a minute. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- THERE'S a whisker! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Now, Lammle,' said Fascination Fledgeby, calmly feeling for his whisker, 'it won't do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And I ain't a master-mind, Joe resumed, when he had unfixed his look, and got back to his whisker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The present Barnacle, holding Mr Clennam's card in his hand, had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But it looked at me over the head of Red Whisker, and I was adamant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She received my attentions with favour; but whether on my account solely, or because she had any designs on Red Whisker, I can't say. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- This was addressed to a very smart young gentleman who wore his hat on his right whisker, and was lounging over the desk, killing flies with a ruler. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I got at him,' pursued Fledgeby, feeling for his whisker, 'by degrees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Let's get the scaffolding up, then, for a pair of whiskers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- A tall man--a confoundedly tall man--with black whiskers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He beamed on her from the drawing-room door--magnificent, with ambrosial whiskers, like a god. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I will, though I have no whiskers,' here he rubbed the places where they were due, 'and no manners, and no conversation! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Espouse the red whiskers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It's the fashionable way; and fashion and whiskers have been my weaknesses, and I don't care who knows it, says Mr. Jobling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He has the faded appearance of a gentleman in embarrassed circumstances; even his light whiskers droop with something of a shabby air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- His whiskers had made an impression upon her, on the very first night she beheld them at the ball at Messrs. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My name is Smangle, sir,' said the man with the whiskers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Off with him to Siberia, red whiskers and all; I say, I don't like him, Polly, and I wonder that you should. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A red-faced man with large whiskers, and most impudent in his manner. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- His hair and whiskers were blacker and thicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit for being. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He has thick curling brown hair and black eyebrows now, and his whiskers are of the deepest purple. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She loathed the man with whiskers round his face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
手打:弗拉德