stone
stone 英 [stəʊn] 美 [stoʊn]
n. 石头
进行时:stoning 过去式:stoned 过去分词:stoned 第三人称单数:stones 名词复数:stones
- Another name for a stone, or hard mineral lump, is a rock. If you turn over a large stone in the forest, you might find a whole colony of worms, beetles, and other creepy-crawlies living underneath.
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- n. 石头
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1. stone walls
石墙
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2. a stone floor
石地板
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3. a pile of stones
一堆石块
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4. He weighs over 15 stone.
他体重超过 15 英石。
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5. Some children were throwing stones into the lake.
几个孩子正朝湖里扔石头。
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6. Most of the houses are built of stone.
这些房子多数是用石头建造的。
- stone (adj.) "made of stone," Old English (which also had stænan "stonen"); see stone (n.). As an intensifying adjective recorded from 1935, first recorded in African-American vernacular, probably from earlier use in phrases like stone blind (late 14c., literally "blind as a stone"), stone deaf, stone-cold (1590s), etc. Stone cold sober dates from 1937.
- stone (n.) Old English stan, used of common rocks, precious gems, concretions in the body, memorial stones, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (source also of Old Norse steinn, Danish steen, Old Saxon sten, Old Frisian sten, Dutch steen, Old High German stein, German Stein, Gothic stains), from PIE *stoi-no-, suffixed form of root *stai- "stone," also "to thicken, stiffen" (source also of Sanskrit styayate "curdles, becomes hard;" Avestan stay- "heap;" Greek stear "fat, tallow," stia, stion "pebble;" Old Church Slavonic stena, Russian stiena "wall").
- stone (v.) c. 1200, "to pelt with stones," from stone (n.). From c. 1600 as "to fit with stones;" 1630s as "to free from stones" (of fruit, etc.). Related: Stoned; stoning.
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