Ivory

(noun.) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.

整理:罗伯塔

• The span is made of either hard wood or ivory. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Here there were no white men, no soldiers, nor any rubber or ivory to be gathered for cruel and thankless taskmasters. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Paul, for light enough still lingered to show the velvet blackness of his close-shorn head, and the sallow ivory of his brow) looked in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• These people at a later stage also scratched and engraved designs on ivory and bone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Except for the cue ball, no ivory balls are used today on the pocket table. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The seats had also their stained coverings, and one, which was higher than the rest, was accommodated with a footstool of ivory, curiously carved. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The whiteness of the teeth is not that of ivory, but of the snowiest and most gleaming of china. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Young men like John don't take to ivory hands a pinting, for nothing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In the meantime, the valet left the room, and returned shortly with a little ivory book. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She might be three feet high, but she had no shape; her skinny hands rested upon each other, and pressed the gold knob of a wand-like ivory staff. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In the ivory storage vaults of one large company, there is held from $150,000 to $300,000 worth of ivory, ranging from the tusk up to the finished product. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Ivory is of cellular, not fibrous, construction. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:迈拉