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单词 china
释义
chinachi‧na /ˈtʃaɪnə/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINchina
Origin:
1500-1600 Persian chini ‘Chinese’; because it was originally made in China
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a china tea cup
  • We use our china only on special occasions.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Also, that in spite of the immense price difference between various designs, the basic china was of exactly the same high standard.
  • He looked as clean and pretty as a Chelsea china figure.
  • Its linen and its china patterns are on display in the local museum.
  • Later, it may allow brides to peruse china patterns on video from their homes.
  • The next month, china cups clinked again at the White House for Puerto Rican contributors and businessmen.
  • There was a fire burning in the grate and a china chamber-pot painted with birds and flowers beneath the bed.
  • This turned out to be pottery waste, a surviving memorial to a now vanished china factory in the local town.
  • When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
word sets
WORD SETS
ceramics, nounchina, nounclay, nounfire, verbglaze, verbglaze, nounkaolin, nounporcelain, nounpot, nounpotter, nounpotter's wheel, nounpottery, nounstoneware, nounterracotta, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· I broke a china bowl.
(=one made of paper etc)· All they had to drink was warm beer in plastic cups.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· She scraped the earth back and saw something very dark blue - china or glass, buried there.· It was a blue china barn owl with a light bulb stuck to its head.
· Prue Hines is the cook, offering a four-course meal in the evening accompanied by fine china and candlelight.· A delicate process of lithography brings out the richness of the bird's colouring on Coalport's finest bone china.· This year 31 new studies in fine bone china and porcelain have been introduced.· New: meal service in Royal Class features sumptuous season specialties served in fine china and crisp linen cloths.· The rehabilitation of the troubled fine china and crystal maker is likely to continue to be slow and painful.· I prefer artwork, although I specialise in fine china and porcelain.· Dinner is an occasion to be savoured with candlelight, cut glass and fine china.· Delicate wash A 40°C wash for glasses and fine china.
· Suppose Anna dropped a piece of the best china?· He even glued three pieces of my good china back together; you can hardly see where.· We've got to treat you like best bone china.· Leave the crystal and good china to those intimate, sit-down dinner parties.· They'd got out the best china and crystal glasses, the damask napkins, the ebony-handled knives.· Opposite: The butler's pantry, with plenty of room for storing the glass and five best china services.· She's sure to have got out the best china and baked a meat pie or something.· Wedgwood plate from good china shops and department stores; bread and butter plate, £19.95; oval platter, £28.95.
· Serve chilled, in narrow goblets or white china cups, with a little cream floated on top.· Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.· The simplest white china displayed on white shelves achieves a puritan simplicity which is complemented by the warm tones of terracotta.· Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china.· The meal was served on white Minton china with gold rim and the coffee and desert were served on a Spode service.· On the dressing-table was a white china hand.
NOUN
· Interest is building up in Waterford Wedgwood, makers of the famous crystal glassware and bone china.· There are vases of tulips and bowls of fruit, a bone china tea set and a stack of decorated hatboxes.· A delicate process of lithography brings out the richness of the bird's colouring on Coalport's finest bone china.· This year 31 new studies in fine bone china and porcelain have been introduced.· Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.· We've got to treat you like best bone china.· The subjects of many of her pictures have been transferred to Limoges dinnerware and transformed into limited-edition bone china figurines.· Royal Tuscan will continue to produce a wide variety of fine bone china ware.
· When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.· My grandmother sat down in the carved chair next to the china cabinet.· A suicide note was found on a china cabinet.· She stood behind the china cabinet and watched as he poured it down the sink.
· The biggest extractive industry in Cornwall today is the mining of china clay.· But china clay production has increased.· Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.· Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.· Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.· The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.· Much of the china clay went to the Potteries of Staffordshire to be made into crockery - cups, saucers and plates.
· Serve chilled, in narrow goblets or white china cups, with a little cream floated on top.· A man was sitting at a small table in the corner, drinking coffee from a delicate china cup.· Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank.· Like a cracked china cup, the continental crust is still fragile where it has been damaged in the past.· Some one once gave me ever such a lovely little china cup when you was born, with pictures on it.· Well-manicured hands took her jacket respectfully, offered her a seat, brought her coffee in a china cup with a saucer.· The next month, china cups clinked again at the White House for Puerto Rican contributors and businessmen.
· This young man was a bull looking for a china shop.· And needless to say, in the tiny teahouse I was myself the proverbial bull in the china shop.· Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.· Fanatics such as Obispal were invaluable; yet they were akin to bulls set loose in china shops.· Certainly the Imperium embraced a million china shops and more; much crockery could be wasted.· Wedgwood plate from good china shops and department stores; bread and butter plate, £19.95; oval platter, £28.95.· You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
VERB
· Your baby isn't made of china, so she won't break!· Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colours.· Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
  • You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
1a hard white substance produced by baking a type of clay at a high temperature:  china teacups2 (also chi·na·ware /ˈtʃaɪnəweə $ -wer/) plates, cups etc made of china:  I’ll get my best china out.
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