Mantle

(noun.) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell.

(noun.) the cloak as a symbol of authority; 'place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders'.

(noun.) the layer of the earth between the crust and the core.

(noun.) United States baseball player (1931-1997).

(verb.) cover like a mantle; 'The ivy mantles the building'.

(verb.) spread over a surface, like a mantle.

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• She threw off her mantle and bonnet, and sat down opposite to him, enjoying the glow, but lifting up her beautiful hands for a screen. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I took off my pink dress and lace mantle with happier feelings than I had experienced in putting them on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The eight-pointed cross of his order was cut on the shoulder of his mantle in black velvet. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• During his convalescence Tarzan tried to fashion a mantle from the skin of Sabor, which had lain all this time in the cabin. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He took her mantle from the wall, and tenderly wrapped it round her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Welsbach made use of this fact to secure a burner in which the illumination depends upon the glowing of an incandescent, solid mantle, rather than upon the blazing of a burning gas. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The principle of the incandescent mantle is very simple. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• One objection to the mantles is their tendency to break. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Certainly, a collection of horrors, says my Lady, gathering up her mantles and furs, but they interest one for the moment! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A soft kind of youthful shyness depressed her eyelid and mantled on her cheek. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There may have been a momentary mantling in the face of the man as he made the last answer, but it passed directly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Methought I yet saw that mantling blush, and the fine expressive curve of that quivering lip! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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