英语词汇“red box”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

red box n. Australian any of several eucalypts with reddish wood, esp. Eucalyptus polyanthemos; (also) †a related tree, Lophostemon confertus (obsolete).

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1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria II. 160 Red-box—Tee-ring.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 273 Eucalyptus populifolia... Variously called ‘Poplar Box’, ‘Red Box’, ‘White Box’, [etc.].

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 608 Tristania conferta... In Northern New South Wales it has the following names:—‘White Box’, ‘Red Box’, ‘Brush Box’, [etc.].

1900 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 25 597 A new Eucalypt with pale leaves appears, E. intertexta... It is known variously as ‘Red Box’, ‘Bastard Box’, and is one of the largest trees in the west.

1985 Trees & Nat. Resources Sept. 32 Wastelands such as railway sidings have local species among the weeds. Species include..Eucalyptus polyanthemos (Red Box), [etc.].

red box n. a box, usually covered with red leather, used by a minister of state to hold official documents.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > minister's box for

red box1780

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 70 Have their velvet bags, and their red boxes, been so full, that nothing more could possibly be crammed into them?

1823 Lady Campbell Let. 6 Jan. in Miss Eden's Lett. (1919) 80 Every thing..goes on the same,..the very red boxes of office left in their places.

a1883 E. Fitzgerald Misc. (1900) 201 It is good for a Counsellor to be attended on his travels with a Red Box.

1928 Times 28 Nov. 17/3 Sir Austen Chamberlain must know well what it is to be met at night by the same barricade of red boxes across his study table.

1984 J. Archer First among Equals (1985) xii. 141 The report of the new Boundary Commission had been left in the red box for him to study over the weekend.

2008 Sun (Nexis) 14 Mar. Most MPs are not on the fiddle. They work hard on constituency matters or the red boxes if they are ministers.

单词	red box
释义	> as lemmas red box red box n. Australian any of several eucalypts with reddish wood, esp. Eucalyptus polyanthemos; (also) †a related tree, Lophostemon confertus (obsolete). ΚΠ 1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria II. 160 Red-box—Tee-ring. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 273 Eucalyptus populifolia... Variously called ‘Poplar Box’, ‘Red Box’, ‘White Box’, [etc.]. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 608 Tristania conferta... In Northern New South Wales it has the following names:—‘White Box’, ‘Red Box’, ‘Brush Box’, [etc.]. 1900 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 25 597 A new Eucalypt with pale leaves appears, E. intertexta... It is known variously as ‘Red Box’, ‘Bastard Box’, and is one of the largest trees in the west. 1985 Trees & Nat. Resources Sept. 32 Wastelands such as railway sidings have local species among the weeds. Species include..Eucalyptus polyanthemos (Red Box), [etc.]. extracted from redadj.n.adv. red box red box n. a box, usually covered with red leather, used by a minister of state to hold official documents. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > minister's box for red box1780 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 70 Have their velvet bags, and their red boxes, been so full, that nothing more could possibly be crammed into them? 1823 Lady Campbell Let. 6 Jan. in Miss Eden's Lett. (1919) 80 Every thing..goes on the same,..the very red boxes of office left in their places. a1883 E. Fitzgerald Misc. (1900) 201 It is good for a Counsellor to be attended on his travels with a Red Box. 1928 Times 28 Nov. 17/3 Sir Austen Chamberlain must know well what it is to be met at night by the same barricade of red boxes across his study table. 1984 J. Archer First among Equals (1985) xii. 141 The report of the new Boundary Commission had been left in the red box for him to study over the weekend. 2008 Sun (Nexis) 14 Mar. Most MPs are not on the fiddle. They work hard on constituency matters or the red boxes if they are ministers. extracted from redadj.n.adv. < as lemmas
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