porcelain
porcelain 英 [ˈpɔ:səlɪn] 美 [ˈpɔrsəlɪn]
n. 瓷；瓷器 adj. 瓷制的；精美的
名词复数:porcelains
- Your mom's favorite white china plates are probably made out of porcelain. Porcelain is a nearly translucent ceramic material used to make plates, bowls, and cups.
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- n. 瓷；瓷器
- adj. 瓷制的；精美的
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1. These porcelain plates have rather original designs on them.
这些瓷盘的花纹很别致。
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2. I don't know enough about porcelain to be able to price these plates.
我不太懂得瓷器，估计不出这些盘子的价钱。
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3. To this class of substance belong mica, porcelain, quartz, glass, wood, etc.
属于这类物质的有云母、瓷器、石英、玻璃、木材等等。
- porcelain (n.) 1530s, from Middle French porcelaine and directly from Italian porcellana "porcelain" (13c.), literally "cowrie shell," the chinaware so called from resemblance of its lustrous transparency to the shiny surface of the shells. The shell's name in Italian is from porcella "young sow," fem. of Latin porcellus "young pig," diminutive of porculus "piglet," diminutive of porcus "pig" (from PIE root *porko- "young pig"). According to an old theory, the connection of the shell and the pig is a perceived resemblance of the shell opening to the exposed outer genitalia of pigs.
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