Plum

(noun.) a highly desirable position or assignment; 'a political plum'.

(noun.) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit.

(noun.) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone.

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• Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They'll make you sick, says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Then out ran Miss Bradley, like a large, soft plum in her dark-blue suit. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Please not a seed-cake, but a plum-cake. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Roast beef and plum-pudding for every one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Against cakes: how cakes are bad things, especially if they are sweet and have plums in them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is needless to say that all the caveats are not quite so full of plums, but this is certainly a wonder. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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