Polished

(adj.) perfected or made shiny and smooth; 'his polished prose'; 'in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes'; 'freshly polished silver' .

(adj.) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; 'his polished manner'; 'maintained an urbane tone in his letters' .

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• The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It consisted of a graduated arc of soli d polished brass five inches broad, two inches thick, and with a radius of about six and three quarters feet. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• It is rough compared with a polished mirror. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I was hoping that if the paper on which he wrote was thin, some trace of it might come through upon this polished surface. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His boots were smoothly polished dull leather. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He prepares a polished metal plate, generally zinc, with an extremely thin coating of film or fatty milk, which dries upon and adheres to the plate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No other thing can scratch or mar the polished facets and sharp corners of the diamond. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She had seen a drop of eau de Cologne on the polished arm of the sofa, and instinctively sought to wipe it off. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• After the engraver has worked out the design in intaglio the die is put through the operation of hardening, after which, being cleaned and polished, it is called a matrix. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Here and there polished surfaces of ruby, emerald, and diamond patched the golden walls and ceiling. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• This type of vacuum cleaner, which is reasonable in price, is made of steel and finished in very highly polished nickel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• An iron bar was also used, polished, and with a man standing on it to insure solid contact; but only one thousand amperes passed through it--i. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The amiable creature with the polished head told me a long story, which I think was about gardening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• They continued to correspond, she in the unweighed language of unwavering affection, he in the chilly phraseology of the polished rhetorician. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The accompanying illustration (Fig. 13) is of a rectangular grill, made of pressed steel and highly polished, designed to operate from any electric light socket. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If a mirror or any other polished surface is held in the path of a sunbeam, some of the light is reflected, and by rotating the mirror the reflected sunbeam may be made to take any path. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The knife and fork, so contemptuously flung aside a month before, Tarzan now manipulated as exquisitely as did the polished D'Arnot. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It dropped in the dirt, and he picked it up and polished it on his breeches, and laid it before us. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The more he polished the worse I smelt. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I never mentioned his manners; but, unless I had a very bad taste, they must suit it; they are polished, calm, and gentlemanlike. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Without doubt, said the polished uncle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The hard shell of the nut is polished and made into cups and other domestic utensils. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The fact that some implements are polished does not preclude the presence of great quantities of implements of unpolished stone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The old-style mangle had a box, weighted with stone, which was reciprocated on rollers, and was run back and forth upon the clothes spread upon a polished table beneath. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Upon the last lid's polished field-- Legend now both fair and true A gallant knight bears on his shield, Amy in letters gold and blue. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• What a very finished, highly polished little pate it was! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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