Chestnuts是什么意思？

Chestnuts

英[t'ʃesnʌts] 美[t'ʃesnʌts]

• n. 栗子( chestnut的名词复数 )，栗色，栗树，栗色马；

例句

• The beeches, oaks and chestnuts all belong to the same family. 山毛榉树 、 橡树和栗子树属于同科树种.
• She then sent Xiangzi to buy a pound of chestnuts. 然后,她叫祥子去买一斤栗子来.
• Talk of chestnuts loosened the tongue of this inarticulate young man. 因为栗子,正苦无话可说的年青人,得到同情他的人了.
• A man in the street was selling bags of hot chestnuts. 街上有个男人在卖一包包热栗子.
• I sat holding the hot chestnuts. After crying a while , Mama burned the paper ingots. 我坐在坟头的旁边, 弄着手里那几个栗子.
• Chestnuts can be used at Christmas time, as a stuffing for turkey, guinea fowl or chicken. 栗子可以在圣诞节时作火鸡、珍珠鸡或家鸡的填料。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  栗子树
  A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
• N-COUNT
  栗子
  Chestnuts are the reddish-brown nuts that grow on chestnut trees. You can eat chestnuts.
• COLOUR
  栗色;红棕色
  Something that is chestnut is dark reddish-brown in colour.
  例句
  ...a woman with chestnut hair. 栗色头发的女子 ...a chestnut mare. 枣红色母马
• PHRASE
  老掉牙的话(或故事、笑话);老一套
  If you refer to a statement, a story, or a joke as an old chestnut or a hoary chestnut, you mean that it has been repeated so often that it is no longer interesting.
  例句
  ...that old chestnut, the war between man and machines. 又是老掉牙的故事：人机大战