Oyster

(noun.) marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters.

(noun.) a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl.

(verb.) gather oysters, dig oysters.

录入:玛丽埃塔

• Now how did those masses of oyster-shells get there? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Everything was gone, down to the little mirror with the oyster-shell frame. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The Japanese produce them by fastening a piece of mother-of-pearl in the shells of the pearl-oyster and allowing it to remain there for a number of years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They were clean, nice oyster shells, large, and just like any other oyster shells. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of an oyster. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners'--a local sweetmeat--he presented an oyster-knife at the twins! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• An oyster has no taste for such things; he cares nothing for the beautiful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Or a oyster,' added the third, who was a hoarse gentleman, supported by very round legs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The hill might have been the bottom of the sea, once, and been lifted up, with its oyster-beds, by an earthquake--but, then, how about the crockery? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Among the oyster-shells were mixed many fragments of ancient, broken crockery ware. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Look here, sir; here's a oyster-stall to every half-dozen houses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• As he said it, he glanced from the cod-fish to the oyster-barrels, and chuckled joyously. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Then suddenly he cried: 'Pussum, you can't eat oysters when you're drinking brandy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Time for your oysters! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• To keep oysters stir into them 3 ounces of the solution (cold) to each gallon of oysters. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The most natural conclusion would be that the oysters climbed up there to look at the scenery. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It's a wery remarkable circumstance, Sir,' said Sam, 'that poverty and oysters always seem to go together. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Gerald watched her eating the oysters. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Vessels have been designed for this purpose with a capacity of gathering oysters from good ground at the rate of 5,000 bushels per hour. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Within a few years some valuable methods of keeping meats, fish, oysters, fruits, fruit juices, milk, butter, etc. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• What I mean, sir,' said Sam, 'is, that the poorer a place is, the greater call there seems to be for oysters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The high temperature to which they are exposed necessarily causes a loss of flavor, and it is generally remarked that tinned oysters are not a success. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• An't yer fond of oysters? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• There is also a Jamaica pigeon, also just cooked here, and a _vol au vent_, which I have had made from oysters which were sent open in the preserving stuff from Jamaica. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.

校对:马蒂