Marble

(noun.) a small ball of glass that is used in various games.

(noun.) a sculpture carved from marble.

(noun.) a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material.

(verb.) paint or stain like marble; 'marble paper'.

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• At nine o'clock in the morning we went and stood before this marble colossus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A large marble tomb would not please me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Paler than marble, with white lips and convulsed features, Idris became aware of my situation. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The new cushions are a great improvement upon the hard marble seats we have been so long accustomed to. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Making carbon dioxide from marble and hydrochloric acid. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He obtained, by fusion, a crystalline carbonate resembling marble. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the wood and coal we burn, the marble we employ in building, the indispensable soap, and the ornamental diamond, all contain carbon in some form. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• What did she mean by that allusion to the cold people who petrify flesh to marble? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She cried fit to break her heart; her ringlets fell over her face, and over the marble mantelpiece where she laid it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This is not a time for a lady, however highly connected, to be totally inaudible, and seemingly swallowing marbles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It is built entirely of precious marbles, brought from the Orient --nothing in its composition is domestic. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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