stone
n. 石頭; 寶石; 礦石; (膀胱或腎臟中的)結石
vt. 向扔石塊; 用石頭鋪; 以石擲向; 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...
他無法確定地板是木頭的還是石頭的。
People often don't appreciate that marble is a natural stone.
人們經常不瞭解大理石是一種天然石料。
A stone is a small piece of rock that is found on the ground.
He removed a stone from his shoe...
他從鞋子裡倒出一塊石子。
The crowd began throwing stones.
人群開始扔石塊。
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.
該遺址由一圈巨大的石碑組成。
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...
他只是提出這個觀點供討論,它還沒板上釘釘。
Scientific opinions are not carved on tablets of stone; they change over the years.
科學觀點並非一成不變;它們隨著時間而改變。
You can refer to a jewel as a stone .
...a diamond ring with three stones.
鑲有 3 顆鑽石的戒指
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.
他有腎結石。
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.
然後去核再將李子加工成糊狀。
If people stone someone or something, they throw stones at them.
Youths burned cars and stoned police...
年輕人燒汽車,並向警察扔石頭。
A post office was set on fire and vehicles were stoned by looters.
搶劫犯放火燒了一家郵局,並用石頭砸車。
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.
我體重約為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...
離海灘只有幾步之遙的一套兩居室公寓
Just a stone's throw away is the City Art Gallery.
不遠處就是市美術館。
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.
他說他會盡一切努力去尋求和平。
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
這些名詞均有"寶石"之意。
rock, stone, gravel, pebble
這些名詞均含"石,石頭"之意。
be written (或 engraved, set) in stone
已定的,不可改變的
cast (或 throw) the first stone
[用來強調一個潛在的批評者並不是無可非議的]率先責難
leave no stone unturned
千方百計,想盡辦法
stone me! (或 stone the crows!)
(英,非正式)[用作表示驚訝或吃驚的感嘆]哎呀!啊
a stone's throw
短距離
Wood is often painted to imitate stone.
木頭常塗上油漆冒充石頭.
I fell down over a stone.
一塊石頭把我絆了一跤.
When the stone came towards him, he ducked his head.
當石頭向他砸來時, 他迅速低下頭.
The dog turned tail when he saw the man pick up a stone to throw at him.
狗看到那人撿起一塊石頭向它砸來時就逃跑了.
He carved the stone into the figure of a man.
他用那塊石頭雕成人形.