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hour·glass
aUr glaes
复数:hourglasses
noun
an instrument that measures time by channeling a quantity of sand or mercury through a narrow opening between two larger glass bulbs in exactly one hour.
adjective
having a relatively slim waist or midsection; shaped like an hourglass.
也称为 hour-glass,是一种用于测量时间的仪器,始于1510年,由 hour 和 glass(名词)组成。19世纪用于各种技术和科学意义上的形状描述; 1897年开始用于描述女性的躯干。
Men condemn corsets in the abstract, and are sometimes brave enough to insist that the women of their households shall be emancipated from them; and yet their eyes have been so generally educated to the approval of the small waist, and the hourglass figure, that they often hinder women who seek a hygienic style of dress. [Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, "The Story of My Life," 1898]
男性们抽象地谴责束腰,有时勇敢地坚持让家中的女性摆脱束缚; 然而,他们的眼睛往往习惯于赞赏细腰和沙漏身材,以至于常常阻碍那些追求健康着装风格的女性。【玛丽·阿什顿·赖弗莫尔,《我的故事》,1898年】
【修】水漏,沙漏
【微软】沙漏标
The first known use of hourglass was circa 1515
housebrokenadjective
trained in habits of eliminating bodily waste that are acceptable in indoor living
a housebroken dog
housebreakingnoun
the act of breaking into a person's house with the intention of committing a crime
housebreakverb
to make housebroken
houseboynoun
a boy or man hired as a general household servant
houseboatnoun
a roomy usually shallow and flat-bottomed pleasure boat equipped for use as a dwelling or for cruising
hournoun
a time for or rite of religious worship
one of the 24 divisions of a day : 60 minutes
the time of day
the hour is now 10:00 a.m.
a fixed or particular time an hour of need
lunch hour
the distance traveled in an hour
lives two hours away
a class session
I have math this hour
hourlyadjective
occurring every hour
hourly bus service
figured in terms of one hour
hourly wages
hourglassnoun
an instrument for measuring time in which usually sand runs from the upper part to the lower part of a glass container in an hour
1 After lunch, we ride in a procession past the royal hourglass.
2 Mr. Lars tailored the sheath with a front panel, giving women up to size 22 an hourglass silhouette.
3 By each seat you have an hourglass. the little...
4 It was even funnier to me because I'd brought my own hourglass, which the studio people said I absolutely could not take out.
让我觉得更好笑的是,我自己也带来了沙漏,演播室的人却说我绝对不能拿到演播厅去。
5 The designer still kept her curvy, hourglass silhouette for some dresses.
6 The Beauty Minister checks her tiny pocket hourglass.
7 Shakeemah Smith, a travel influencer, deems the habit an inconvenience that steals precious sand from her hourglass.
8 Then—the old friends have so much to do and the hourglass is just about empty—they let it go after all.
9 At 12:30 p.m. every day, an angel strikes a bell, and another turns over an hourglass.
10 Oriental wrapped silks combined with Bejeweled couture, which embellished the show's hourglass silhouettes.
11 The hourglass is almost empty!
沙漏几乎要空了!
12 Her hourglass figure is a source of power that she wields intentionally.
13 Star born after rise of mankind making its mark with massive hourglass nebula.
人类的出现让巨大的沙漏星云有了标志并由此诞生星星这一概念。
14 Now research suggests that women with an hourglass figure are brighter and have cleverer children, too.
现在一项研究显示,拥有沙漏形身材的女性更为聪慧,她们生出的宝宝也更聪明.
15 An hourglass (especially on Windows).
沙漏(特别是Windows上)。
16 The hourglass had to empty twice more before the crucial time he awaited.
17 But the sand was running through the hourglass.
18 This includes clocks of the wall, mantel, grandfather and bedside-table variety; clocks on steeples, towers, dashboards and bombs; and clocks in train stations, shop windows and spaceships as well as the occasional hourglass and sundial.
19 To create the memory they tapered the wire to an hourglass shape at one point along its length.
为了制造出存储体,他们又根据金属丝的长度将其打造成沙漏的形状并固定于一点。
20 He often employs materials used in the aerospace industry, like the borosilicate glass of his Ikepod hourglass, which he filled with stainless steel “nanoballs” instead of sand.