pearls是什么意思？

pearls

• n. 珍珠( pearl的名词复数 )，珍品，人造珍珠，珠状物；

例句

• The necklace consists of three strings of pearls. 这条项链由三串珍珠组成。
• They strung these pearls tightly. 他们把这些珍珠串得太紧了。
• These pearls have a beautiful luster. 这些珍珠光泽很美。
• diving for pearls 潜水采珠
• The men are diving for pearls. 这些人正在潜水采集珍珠。
• It is not easy to distinguish cultured pearls from genuine pearls. 辨别真正的珍珠与养殖的珍珠不容易。
• She wore a cashmere scarf,silk suit and pearls. 她围了一条开士米围巾,穿了一身丝绸套装,戴了一串珍珠。
• Cast not your pearls before swine. 明珠暗投。
• Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below. 错误像稻草，漂浮在水面.欲觅珍珠者，须往水下潜。
• He who would search for pearls must dive below(or deep). 欲寻珍珠，须潜水下。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  珍珠
  A pearl is a hard round object which is shiny and creamy white in colour. Pearls grow inside the shell of an oyster and are used for making expensive jewellery.
  例句
  She wore a string of pearls at her throat... 她戴了一串珍珠项链。 I put on the pearl earrings Daddy had bought me. 我戴上了爸爸给我买的珍珠耳环。
• ADJ
  珍珠般的
  Pearl is used to describe something which looks like a pearl.
  例句
  ...tiny pearl buttons. 珍珠般的小纽扣
• PHRASE
  明珠暗投；对牛弹琴
  If you say that someone is casting pearls before swine, you mean that they are wasting their time by offering something that is helpful or valuable to someone who does not appreciate or understand it.
  例句
  You do not value what should be valued, I see I was casting pearls before swine. 你不重视应该重视的东西，我觉得我是在对牛弹琴。
• PHRASE
  精辟见解，睿智言论，妙语如珠（常指开玩笑的话）
  People describe what someone says as pearls of wisdom to suggest that it is wise or helpful, often when they are joking.
  例句
  And what is that pearl of wisdom supposed to mean?... 那番精辟见解到底是什么意思呢？ Her advice includes perfectly true but rather fulsome pearls of wisdom. 她的建议中有完全正确的金玉良言，但有过于恭维之嫌。