Queen

(noun.) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.

(noun.) an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males.

(noun.) (chess) the most powerful piece.

(noun.) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen.

(noun.) a female sovereign ruler.

(noun.) the wife or widow of a king.

(noun.) something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; 'Paris is the queen of cities'; 'the queen of ocean liners'.

(verb.) become a queen; 'her pawn queened'.

(verb.) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess.

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• But the queen had before contrived another project. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The main body of the building is of the time of that highly-overrated woman, Queen Elizabeth. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Similarly, it might be said that the dress was the Queen of Dresses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Like a child or like a queen? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The constitution which this act established, was allowed to subsist for about two-and-twenty years, but was abolished by the 10th of queen Anne, ch. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Know that a petition was presented to the King and Queen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The story of the piano, that queen of musical instruments, involves the whole history of the art of music. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Master Allan Stewart, friend to Captain James Stewart of Cardonall, by means of the Queen's corrupted court, obtained the Abbey of Crossraguel. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She sat like a strange queen, almost supernatural in her glowing smiling richness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Intense loyalty to the queen mother is apparent in all their activities and arrangements. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I cannot be imposed upon any more by that picture of the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A boon', a boon', quoth Earl' Mar-shal', And fell' on his bend'-ded knee', That what'-so-e'er' the queen' shall say', No harm' there-of' may be'. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In the queen's cell were two National Guards. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Queens of society can't get on without money, so you mean to make a good match, and start in that way? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Mr Milvey smiled again, as he remarked to himself 'Those kings and queens were always wishing for children. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy Tales, I suppose you have wished for one? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It's what they do to queens. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She half suspected that queens in themselves were a silliness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Two fine examples of this type are found, one in a bridge across the Niagara adjacent to the suspension bridge above described and one across the river Forth at Queens Ferry in Scotland. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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