Bone

(noun.) a shade of white the color of bleached bones.

(noun.) rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates.

(noun.) the porous calcified substance from which bones are made.

(verb.) remove the bones from; 'bone the turkey before roasting it'.

(adj.) consisting of or made up of bone; 'a bony substance'; 'the bony framework of the body' .

校对:桑福德

• Bring me a grilled bone. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But the wheels had hard tires, the roads and many of the streets were not smooth, the vehicle got the name of the bone-breaker and its use ceased. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Bute, Bute, why did you break your collar-bone? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If I had--killed your--mother with my own hand--I should not deserve such a scourging to the bone as this. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Sure and I'm just going there, to come back again by the marrow-bone stage. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Her own little right-hand middle finger got steeped to the very bone in ink; and I think that was the only decided result obtained. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Was it her shoes, her stays, or her bones? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They have dug a hole, and they have found things like flowerpots upside down, Mis'ess Yeobright; and inside these be real charnel bones. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She was pleased, but answered, 'Tut, Trot; MY old bones would have kept till tomorrow! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She drove out solemnly in their great family coach with them, and Miss Wirt their governess, that raw-boned Vestal. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I like your face, Lady Jane: it's got none of the damned high-boned Binkie look in it; and I'll give ee something pretty, my dear, to go to Court in. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• One night, very late, near Dublin, he met two of his brothers just as they had got into a violent row with three raw-boned, half naked Irish pats. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• A large-boned lady, long past middle age, sat at work in a grim handsomely-furnished dining-room. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He is perched on a large raw-boned hunter, half-covered by a capacious saddle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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