| 英语单词 | marble |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['mɑːbl] 美 ['mɑːrbl] |
| 中文释义 | n.大理石;弹子,弹珠 vt.使有大理石的花纹 |
| 英语例句 | (1) This table is made of marble. (2) Michelangelo carved in marble. (3) There are many perpendicular marble columns in Greek temples. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这个桌子是大理石的。 (2) 米开朗琪罗在大理石上雕刻。 (3) 希腊庙宇有很多垂直的大理石柱。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Marble is a very hard rock that's a particular type of limestone. Fancy lobbies (and even bathrooms) are often lined with marble. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Marble's unique qualities make it a popular stone for artists and kitchen designers alike — the white stone statues you find in most museums, some of them dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, are carved from white marble. High-end kitchen counters are often made from polished slabs of darker colored marble. A single marble is a glass ball swirled with marble-like colors, and "to marble" is to paint with similar swirls and whorls. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]大理石 Marble is a type of very hard rock which feels cold when you touch it and which shines when it is cut and polished. Statues and parts of buildings are sometimes made of marble. [oft N n]
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]大理石雕像 Marbles are sculptures made of marble. [usu pl]
3 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](小孩子在地上玩的)弹子游戏,弹球游戏 Marbles is a children's game played with small balls, usually made of coloured glass. You roll a ball along the ground and try to hit an opponent's ball with it.
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]弹子;弹珠;弹球 A marble is one of the small balls used in the game of marbles. 5 [PHRASE 短语]失去理智;发疯;行为失常 If you say that someone has lost their marbles, you mean that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, as if they have become insane. [V inflects] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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