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  • n. 大理石
  • [英] n. 大理石 ( a hard sort of stone used for building, sculpture)
  • [类] canvas : painter / marble : sculptor ( 画家用画布画画 / 雕刻家用大理石雕刻)

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I. noun

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Greek marmaros
  • Date: 12th century
  • 1.
    • a. limestone that is more or less crystallized by metamorphism, that ranges from granular to compact in texture, that is capable of taking a high polish, and that is used especially in architecture and sculpture
    • b. something (as a piece of sculpture) composed of or made from marble
    • c. something suggesting marble (as in hardness, coldness, or smoothness) <a heart of marble>
  • 2.
    • a. a little ball made of a hard substance (as glass) and used in various games
    • b. plural but singular in construction any of several games played with these little balls
    • c. plural the rewards to be won in competition especially for a championship — used in the phrase all the marbles<a game being played for all the marbles>
  • 3. marbling
  • 4. plural elements of common sense; especially sanity <persons who are born without all their marbles — Arthur Miller>
  • ? marble adjective

II. transitive verb (marbled; marbling)

  • Date: 1675
  • to give a veined or mottled appearance to <marble the edges of a book>


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