crescent
crescent 英 [ˈkresnt] 美 [ˈkrɛsənt]
n. 新月；新月状物；伊斯兰教的标记；土耳其的新月形国徽 adj. 新月形的；逐渐增加的 vt. 以新月形物装饰；使成新月形
名词复数:crescents
- A crescent is a thin, curved shape that’s thicker in the middle and tapers to thin points at each end, like the little sliver of moon you might notice in the sky.
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- n. 新月；新月状物；伊斯兰教的标记；土耳其的新月形国徽
- adj. 新月形的；逐渐增加的
- vt. 以新月形物装饰；使成新月形
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1. To make it, dredger ships pumped sand from the sea floor and spewed it out in an arc onto the site of the island's crescent breakwater.
建造此岛时，先用挖泥船从海床上抽取沙土，让后将沙土以弧形喷射到预定位置上，形成新月形的防浪堤基座。
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2. As often as not, it has turned its back on the crescent that stretches from Morocco to Turkey, as a cradle of instability and terrorism.
它（欧盟）经常背离这个从摩洛哥延伸至土耳其的新月地带，而这个地方被视作是不稳定和恐怖主义的摇篮。
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3. Then she brought me a cookie – a Viennese crescent she got from the best bakery in New York – and initiated the first of a life time of serious talks.
然后她给了我一块饼干——她从纽约最好的面包店买的维也纳式新月形饼干——从此开始了我一生中最重要的一次谈话。
- crescent (n.) late 14c., cressaunt, "crescent-shaped ornament," from Anglo-French cressaunt, from Old French creissant "crescent of the moon" (12c., Modern French croissant), from Latin crescentum (nominative crescens), present participle of crescere "come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in numbers or strength," from PIE root *ker- (2) "to grow."
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