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gourd

/ɡʊɚd/ 名词 C2

中文: 瓜、葫芦、脑瓜

  1. Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
  2. A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
  3. The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
  4. Loaded dice. (informal)
  5. A person's head. (slang) · I got so stoned last night. I was out of my gourd.

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A sailor was rubbing his limbs with a woollen cloth; another, whom he recognized as the one who had cried out “Courage!” held a gourd full of rum to his mouth; while the third, an old sailor, at once the pilot and captain, looked on with that egotistical pity men feel for a misfortune that they have escaped yesterday, and which may overtake them tomorrow.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第228页 · C1
A piece of bread was brought, and Jacopo offered him the gourd.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第231页 · C1
Dantès glanced that way as he lifted the gourd to his mouth; then paused with hand in mid-air.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第232页 · C1

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