Japan

(noun.) lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient.

(noun.) lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer.

(noun.) a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.

(noun.) a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building.

(verb.) coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan.

校对:维多利亚

• An earthquake-proof steel palace for the Crown Prince of Japan is one of the modern applications of steel in architecture. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Leather is now very generally employed, though wood is often used in Holland and France and paper in China and Japan. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This island of Luggnagg stands south-eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He had not found Japan, it was thought, but India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We cannot tell here in any detail of Japan's war with China in 1894-95. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Like China under the Mings, Japan had set her face resolutely against the interference of foreigners in her affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The ends of the rails were not japanned, but were electroplated, to give good contact surfaces for fish-plates and copper bonds. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And there was the japanned tin case fastened to the end of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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