ivory
美音:
[´aıvərı
]英音:
[´aıvərı
]n.象牙
难易程度:
ivory为短语/超纲词汇
词频:6093
词形变化:
名词复数:ivories
近义词, 同义词
ivory
/'aɪvərɪ; `aɪvərɪ/
n
1 [U] creamy-white bone-like substance forming the tusks of elephants, walruses, etc 象牙; (海象等的)长牙
*[attrib 作定语] an ivory statuette 象牙制的小雕像.
2 [C] object made of this 象牙制品
*a priceless collection of ivories 象牙的稀世珍品收藏.
3 [U] colour of ivory 象牙色的; 乳白色的
*[attrib 作定语] an ivory skin, complexion, etc 乳白色的皮肤、面色等
* ivory-coloured silk 乳白色的丝绸.
4 (idm 习语) an ,ivory `tower place or situation where people retreat from the unpleasant realities of everyday life and pretend that these do not exist 象牙塔(对日常生活中烦恼的现实视而不见者的退身之所或处境)
*live in an ivory tower 生活在象牙塔中
* [attrib 作定语] lead an,ivory-tower e`xistence 过象牙塔式的生活.
ivory
npluralivories[
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;Origin: ivoire, from
Latin ebor, from
Egyptian ab
'elephant, ivory']
[U]the hard smooth yellowish-white substance from the
tusks (=long teeth) of an
elephant an ivory chess set[U]a yellowish white colour
an ivory silk wedding gown [C often plural]something made of ivory, especially a small figure of a person or animal
a collection of Chinese ivories
1. Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths. 长期以来,历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。
2. Is it made of ivory? 它是象牙做的吗?
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