Tongs

(noun.) any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below.

哈恩编辑

• It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• When the process is stopped and the temporary wall in front broken down the bloom is removed with a pair of tongs from the bottom of the furnace. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The tongs made a pleasant clicking sound and I could see Catherine in three mirrors and it was pleasant and warm in the booth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You're hammer and tongs, already, you two? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I was so ragged and dirty, that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of tongs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Mrs. Gradgrind faintly looked at the tongs, as the most appropriate thing her imbecility could think of doing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• There, now I'll take off the papers and you'll see a cloud of little ringlets, said Jo, putting down the tongs. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• A sort of squeezing apparatus, or tongs, called the alligator, had been employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I'm so sorry, but the tongs were too hot, and so I've made a mess, groaned poor Jo, regarding the little black pancakes with tears of regret. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Seizing with the tongs the image that she had made of Eustacia, she held it in the heat, and watched it as it began to waste slowly away. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Why, I would have laid any bet you like, Mr. Franklin, that your father wouldn't have touched the Colonel with a pair of tongs! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot tongs. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Joseph still continued a huge clattering at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his yellow face would allow him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I saw Madame Fosco, who was making the tea, pause, with the sugar-tongs in her hand, to listen for my answer. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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