stone
n. 石头; 宝石; 矿石; (膀胱或肾脏中的)结石
vt. 向扔石块; 用石头铺; 以石掷向; 除(水果的)硬核
Stone is a hard solid substance found in the ground and often used for building houses.
He could not tell whether the floor was wood or stone...
他无法确定地板是木头的还是石头的。
People often don't appreciate that marble is a natural stone.
人们经常不了解大理石是一种天然石料。
A stone is a small piece of rock that is found on the ground.
He removed a stone from his shoe...
他从鞋子里倒出一块石子。
The crowd began throwing stones.
人群开始扔石块。
A stone is a large piece of stone put somewhere in memory of a person or event, or as a religious symbol.
The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones.
该遗址由一圈巨大的石碑组成。
Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed.
He is merely throwing the idea forward for discussion, it is not cast in stone...
他只是提出这个观点供讨论,它还没板上钉钉。
Scientific opinions are not carved on tablets of stone; they change over the years.
科学观点并非一成不变;它们随着时间而改变。
You can refer to a jewel as a stone .
...a diamond ring with three stones.
镶有 3 颗钻石的戒指
A stone is a small hard ball of minerals and other substances which sometimes forms in a person's kidneys or gall bladder.
He had kidney stones.
他有肾结石。
The stone in a plum, cherry, or other fruit is the large hard seed in the middle of it.
If you stone a fruit, you remove its stone.
Then stone the fruit and process the plums to a puree.
然后去核再将李子加工成糊状。
If people stone someone or something, they throw stones at them.
Youths burned cars and stoned police...
年轻人烧汽车,并向警察扔石头。
A post office was set on fire and vehicles were stoned by looters.
抢劫犯放火烧了一家邮局,并用石头砸车。
A stone is a measurement of weight, especially the weight of a person, equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms.
I weighed around 16 stone.
我体重约为16英石。
If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
...a two-bedroom apartment just a stone's throw from the beach...
离海滩只有几步之遥的一套两居室公寓
Just a stone's throw away is the City Art Gallery.
不远处就是市美术馆。
If you say that you will leave no stone unturned, you are emphasizing that you will try every way you can think of in order to achieve what you want.
He said he would leave no stone unturned in the search for peace.
他说他会尽一切努力去寻求和平。
1. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter;
2. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust;
3. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose;
4. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;
5. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;
6. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds;
7. a lack of feeling or expression or movement;
1. kill by throwing stones at;
2. remove the pits from;
1. of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
jewel, jewellery, stone, gem
这些名词均有"宝石"之意。
rock, stone, gravel, pebble
这些名词均含"石,石头"之意。
be written (或 engraved, set) in stone
已定的,不可改变的
cast (或 throw) the first stone
[用来强调一个潜在的批评者并不是无可非议的]率先责难
leave no stone unturned
千方百计,想尽办法
stone me! (或 stone the crows!)
(英,非正式)[用作表示惊讶或吃惊的感叹]哎呀!啊
a stone's throw
短距离
Wood is often painted to imitate stone.
木头常涂上油漆冒充石头.
I fell down over a stone.
一块石头把我绊了一跤.
When the stone came towards him, he ducked his head.
当石头向他砸来时, 他迅速低下头.
The dog turned tail when he saw the man pick up a stone to throw at him.
狗看到那人捡起一块石头向它砸来时就逃跑了.
He carved the stone into the figure of a man.
他用那块石头雕成人形.