英:[spɪˈtu:n]
美:[spɪˈtun]
英:[spɪˈtu:n]
美:[spɪˈtun]
spit·toon
spih tun
同时, spitoon,又称“接唾器”,最早出现于1811年的美国英语中,由 spit (n.1) 和 -oon 组成。这是一个很少见的使用该后缀形成的英语单词的例子(octoroon 是另一个例子)。早期的说法是 spitting box(1680年代)。
spit >entry 4 + -oon (as in balloon)
The first known use of spittoon was in 1823
splashdownnoun
the landing of a spacecraft in the ocean
spitznoun
a member of any of several breeds of heavy-coated dogs with ears standing straight up and a tail curled over the back
spittoonnoun
a container to spit into
1 When Cade finished, he used his empty bottle as a spittoon.
2 Hurriedly, he flicked his cigarette into a spittoon and, with twin eddies of blue smoke jutting from his black nostrils, shouted hoarsely, “Jack, I betcha two bits you can’t make it!”
3 The shop would also have spittoons for the many customers who chewed tobacco.
4 The atmosphere at these locales was often hostile and crude — sawdust on the floor, spittoons in the corner and fights breaking out at regular intervals.
5 What do you need a spittoon for? "
要 痰盂 有什么用?
6 After making the postseason for the first time since 2007 last year, they now have two trophies — the Old Oaken Bucket and spittoon — on campus for the first time since 2001.
7 Along with large brass spittoons on the floor, the Senate has satellite dishes on the roof, and members regularly avail themselves of everything technology has to offer to excite and inflame passions.
8 The spittoons are gone now, but Library Manager Jason Macoviak said the library still uses some of the original furniture and still serves as a community gathering place.
9 There could be 18 brass spittoons at one firehouse.
10 Michael had to pull a brass spittoon off the foot of an inebriated senator, and Martin had to lie to wives of senators about where their husbands were.
11 Just a handful of regulars sat at The Brick, with a trickle of water at their feet running in the 25-foot metal spittoon.
12 There, Henry cleaned toilets and spittoons in exchange for room and board.
13 This used to be the billiards room, where my paternal grandfather—Carolina’s great-grandfather—worked.CAROLINA:Racking up balls for white men, cleaning their spittoons.
14 The play is an invitation for blacks to stand at what Harris calls an “anger spittoon” to weep, clap, laugh and find comfort in pageant and shared experience.
15 Complete game shutouts have gone the way of flannel uniforms and spittoons, the sport transforming at its most rapid pace since the live-ball era began nearly a century ago.
16 Jean Louise drove the putter home beside the fire tongs, gathered up the golf balls, and threw them at the spittoon.
17 Hephaestus cleared his throat and spat into a bronze spittoon.
18 On the floor at the side of the desk was a spittoon overflowing with mucus.
19 Instead, they swapped fantastic tales about how Tutsis once used their Hutu slaves as spittoons, expectorating into their mouths, instead of on the ground.
20 Former wrestler Lisa Moretti says in the documentary that the gym was "nasty and stinky and dirty, and the mats had blood stains on 'em, and each corner had a spittoon."