Beam

(noun.) long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction.

(noun.) the broad side of a ship; 'they sighted land on the port beam'.

(noun.) (nautical) breadth amidships.

(noun.) a column of light (as from a beacon).

(noun.) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation.

(verb.) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression.

(verb.) express with a beaming face or smile; 'he beamed his approval'.

校对:梅雷迪思

• The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The beam was straight, long, and heavy, and that and the mould generally hewed from a tree. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was good to see him beam at 'my children', as he called the young pair. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• This causes a sound of very great power, which the trumpet collects and compresses, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But there were dark lines in that beam of broken sunlight which Newton did not notice. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They were of different forms, but that most commonly in use consisted of an upright post and a transverse movable beam on which the seat was fitted or from which it was suspended by a chain. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• You had come across it like a beam of sunshine at first--and then you too failed me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Besides, I choose to please myself by sharing an idea that at this moment beams in your mother's eye while she looks at you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Talking, laughing, or snoring, they make the beams of the house shake. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In the building of the Cooper Institute in New York City in 1857 he was the first to employ such beams with brick arches to support the floors. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• What I did mean to say, was, that I never expected to retain my favoured place in this family, after Fortune shed her beams upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I AWOKE in the morning, just as the higher windows of the lofty houses received the first beams of the rising sun. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He beamed on her from the drawing-room door--magnificent, with ambrosial whiskers, like a god. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The maniac became composed; his person rose higher; authority beamed from his countenance. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She was not surprised by the result, but she was happy in it, and her face beamed brightly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Mr. Pickwick expressed his heartfelt delight at every additional suggestion; and his eyes beamed with hilarity and cheerfulness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I had wakened the glow: his features beamed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The house was an old-fashioned, wide-spread, oak-beamed brick building, with a fine lime-lined avenue leading up to it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• His lady-love beamed upon him from a sphere above his own: he could not come near her; he was not certain that he could win from her a look. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• What a beaming face you have, Jane! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• If a laughing eye with a lively light, and a face bright with beaming and healthy energy, could attest that he was better, better he certainly was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She changed as the door opened, and broke into a beaming smile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I looked towards the knoll: there he lay, still as a prostrate column; his face turned to me: his eye beaming watchful and keen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Both smooth heads were alike beaming, blundering, and bumpy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Through the beaming smile with which he regarded me as he reasoned thus, there now broke forth a look of disinterested benevolence quite astonishing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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