| 释义 |
noun ˈseɪb(ə)lˈseɪbəl 1A marten with a short tail and dark brown fur, native to Japan and Siberia and valued for its fur. Martes zibellina, family Mustelidae Example sentencesExamples - Russia's first strict nature reserve - Barguzinsky Zapovednik - was founded in 1916 on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal to protect the endangered Barguzin sable.
- Then patrol the shorelines to observe sables and the world's biggest brown bears, and to scout potential nature-reserve sites.
- The Chinese caravans traded silk, porcelain and tea for furs of black fox and sable, and ivory tusks from frozen mammoths.
- Thus, you get the flora and fauna of both - tigers, panthers, wild boar and pythons tread the same tracks as reindeer, wolves and sables.
- According to old accounts, at that time, one good pelt of sable could bring enough money to buy a 50-acre farm.
- Tradition had it that the island was rich in game (reindeer, polar bears, sables, marten, fish, and certain monsters - perhaps walrus), and that it abounded in marble, crystals, and so on.
- Local tribes sometimes resisted, but in the long run were subdued and subjected to tribute, usually in the form of so many skins per year, the sable being especially sought.
- The area's vast reserves protect animals both rare (Barguzin sable, Baikal seal) and abundant (brown bear, forest reindeer).
- He wrote, ‘The principal riches of Kamchatka consist in the great number of wild beasts: among them are foxes, sables, stone foxes, hares, marmots, ermines, weasels, wolves, reindeer, wild and tame, and stone rams.’
- They herded reindeer, which provided meat and skins, caught and preserved the great shoals of salmon which surged up the summer rivers, and hunted the bears, foxes and sable, whose furs helped them to survive the cold.
- 1.1mass noun The fur of the sable.
Example sentencesExamples - While assembling my belongings, I came across a lovely dress, a creamy chiffon, in the Empress Josephine style, with a bit of luxurious sable round the shoulder.
- On more practical ground, Ferrè also delivered a few totally tempting scarves with cashmere rib-knit on one side, and sable on the other.
- You turn to look into the thrilling eyes of a beautiful woman, wonderful in diamonds and Russian sables.
- He does not wear his silks and sables to accurately represent his status, nor does he dress sumptuously to insidiously advance himself.
- Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
- Larsson should have been adorned in ermine and sable in Andalucia.
- Mink is America's favorite fur, according to the Fur Information Council of America, followed by sable, fox and beaver.
- But it was the Tzars luxurious fur coat made of sable and decorated with gold and silver thread that impressed them the most.
- The law emphasizes that only those of ‘superior degrees’ are permitted to wear satin, silk, and sable or cloth made of or mixed with gold, silver, or tinsel.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, in the sense 'sable fur', from medieval Latin sabelum, of Slavic origin. Rhymes Abel, able, Babel, cable, enable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, stable, table adjective ˈseɪb(ə)lˈseɪbəl Heraldry literary Black. the sable blackness of her hair postpositive six martlets sable Example sentencesExamples - He had the palest skin she had ever seen, milky white, and he was topped with a neatly cropped head of sable hair.
- Chocolate brown eyes had been coloured sable with grief and longing, and that added to the visible exhaustion of what could only be more than a week's worth of sleeplessness…
- Her skin was sable black and shining lightening blue.
- The family arms were; ‘Argent, a fess between six crosslets fitchee sable.’
- Although her intended audience is not black, she still refers to ‘our sable race.’
- The maiden brushed a strand of sable hair behind her ear and gazed straight into the eyes of her nervous king, the emeralds set into her own face unnervingly refusing to blink.
- Sauron has accepted victory, and the sable banners of the Lidless Eye will be hoisted over the walls of the captured city.
- The carriage door swung open, revealing a tall woman with sable hair and dressed in an azure gown, bringing out her gray-blue eyes.
- Her hair matched the sable shade of Belinda's skin.
- If you have brown eyes, stick with taupe, sable and mocha hues.
- Other sources indicate the Irish setter was used in early breeding - the collie's sable color may be the indirect result of such a cross.
- As he left, he did not notice the hateful eyes of the sable raven, watching Calanthas go, from a windowsill.
- My wife and girls fell instantly into dreams while I navigated a causeway suspended between an indigo sky and the sable sea, two voluptuous bodies winking at each other like old lovers.
- The peculiar thing was that sable curtains blocked the inside of the store from view.
- Valarie brushed a lock of sable hair off her shoulder and twirled around proudly, ‘Like my outfit?’
- As though in a trance they stood, staring at that white mask with its black eyes and frame of sable hair, paralyzed by hesitation.
- He pulled Rochelle's sable ringlets away from her neck and began to kiss it.
- Servants in their traditional livery continued about their tasks, sable bands about their arms in honor.
- Adele stopped reading and met Dana's sable eyes with her own lavender ones.
- Her own sable tresses fell into her eyes and she carelessly brushed them away, deeper things on her mind than her chosen body.
- The most frequently seen are shades of darkest red to lightest cream, some with sable accents; but many Poms occur in solid black, black and tan, and parti-colors.
- Two thirds of it was lined with sable bookcases, all stuffed to the gills with heavyweight texts on every subject conceivable.
- As expected, the door opened to reveal Aunt Demeter's porcelain, rose-accented features and sable hair.
- Unlike the dragon so pictured, its sable scales shimmered with an inner light, a fire, a pulse, and seemed almost transparent.
- Jane is a black / sable / tan medium-sized cross breed, approx. 8-10 years old.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, pitchy, ebony, raven, sooty, dusky, ink-black, inky, black as ink, coal-black, black as coal, black as night
noun ˈseɪb(ə)lˈseɪbəl 1Heraldry
literary mass noun Black. Example sentencesExamples - The Tonkinese occurs in four colors: natural, which is also called sable or seal; champagne, also called chocolate; platinum, also called lilac or frost; and blue.
- He would have liked to have seen her sable colored hair in a less formal style.
- The pants were plain enough, tight, but of a good silk in a rich sable.
- Colours are orchestrated in dark tones, such as sable, olive and black accented with flashes of ultramarine.
- For instance, the use of the word sable to describe the skin color of her race imparts a suggestion of rarity and richness that also makes affiliation with the group of which she is a part something to be desired and even sought after.
- Shar-Pei come in just about every colour there is - black, red, red-fawn, fawn, black-pointed cream, sable and blue.
- Other solid colours include sable, buff, red and chocolate.
- I also noticed she had tattooed-on eyebrows in a lovely shade of sable.
- They say he's tall and handsome, and that his hair is as black as sable.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, pitchy, ebony, raven, sooty, dusky, ink-black, inky, black as ink, coal-black, black as coal, black as night - 1.1sablesarchaic Mourning garments.
Example sentencesExamples - Our spirits are dressed in sables, and to laugh so very suddenly seems out of character.
- He is in mourning for his father still, even though it's been 3 years, and goes about dressed in sables which people think terribly unfashionable.
2A large African antelope with long curved horns, the male of which has a black coat and the female a russet coat, both having a white belly. Hippotragus niger, family Bovidae Example sentencesExamples - Antelopes are well represented here, particularly the sable antelope which shows off their extravagant horns as they proudly march between stands of miombo woodland trees.
- The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and sable antelope.
- Also present are elephant, sable antelope, reedbuck, common duiker, blue and vervet monkeys.
- Lions are about the only predators strong enough to bring down a healthy sable.
- The 50,000 acres of land at Gourlays Ranch is a recognised wildlife conservancy, home to thousands of animals including elephants, leopards, sables and kudus.
- The relocation is the first phase of a resettlement programme of several wildlife species, including giant sable and red buffalo, to Kissama over the next five years.
- I grew up with impala and sable antelope, burnt-amber kudu, zebra and wiry wildebeest.
- Throughout Zimbabwe, 64 percent of kudu, 63 percent of giraffes, 56 percent of cheetahs, and 53 percent of sable antelope and impalas were on private ranch properties.
- The handsome sable antelope of eastern and southern Africa belongs to a group called sabre-horned antelopes, because of their long, scimitar-shaped horns.
- It is therefore, common to find different species of grazers co-existing with zebra, buffalo, sable, roan, hartebeest and wildebeest.
- The 14 species of the game include giraffes, zebras, sables, kudus, elands, impalas, pukus, waterbucks, reedbucks, siatoongas, bushbucks, common buickers and graycebucks.
- The Selous has huge herds of sable antelope and estimated 10,000 of them although they are rare in the tourist parts of this huge reserve.
Origin Middle English: from Old French (as a heraldic term), generally taken to be identical with sable1, although sable fur is dark brown. nounˈsābəlˈseɪbəl 1A marten with a short tail and dark brown fur, native to Japan and Siberia and valued for its fur. Martes zibellina, family Mustelidae Example sentencesExamples - Local tribes sometimes resisted, but in the long run were subdued and subjected to tribute, usually in the form of so many skins per year, the sable being especially sought.
- The area's vast reserves protect animals both rare (Barguzin sable, Baikal seal) and abundant (brown bear, forest reindeer).
- They herded reindeer, which provided meat and skins, caught and preserved the great shoals of salmon which surged up the summer rivers, and hunted the bears, foxes and sable, whose furs helped them to survive the cold.
- Thus, you get the flora and fauna of both - tigers, panthers, wild boar and pythons tread the same tracks as reindeer, wolves and sables.
- He wrote, ‘The principal riches of Kamchatka consist in the great number of wild beasts: among them are foxes, sables, stone foxes, hares, marmots, ermines, weasels, wolves, reindeer, wild and tame, and stone rams.’
- Then patrol the shorelines to observe sables and the world's biggest brown bears, and to scout potential nature-reserve sites.
- Tradition had it that the island was rich in game (reindeer, polar bears, sables, marten, fish, and certain monsters - perhaps walrus), and that it abounded in marble, crystals, and so on.
- Russia's first strict nature reserve - Barguzinsky Zapovednik - was founded in 1916 on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal to protect the endangered Barguzin sable.
- According to old accounts, at that time, one good pelt of sable could bring enough money to buy a 50-acre farm.
- The Chinese caravans traded silk, porcelain and tea for furs of black fox and sable, and ivory tusks from frozen mammoths.
- 1.1 The fur of the sable.
Example sentencesExamples - While assembling my belongings, I came across a lovely dress, a creamy chiffon, in the Empress Josephine style, with a bit of luxurious sable round the shoulder.
- You turn to look into the thrilling eyes of a beautiful woman, wonderful in diamonds and Russian sables.
- Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
- Mink is America's favorite fur, according to the Fur Information Council of America, followed by sable, fox and beaver.
- On more practical ground, Ferrè also delivered a few totally tempting scarves with cashmere rib-knit on one side, and sable on the other.
- Larsson should have been adorned in ermine and sable in Andalucia.
- But it was the Tzars luxurious fur coat made of sable and decorated with gold and silver thread that impressed them the most.
- He does not wear his silks and sables to accurately represent his status, nor does he dress sumptuously to insidiously advance himself.
- The law emphasizes that only those of ‘superior degrees’ are permitted to wear satin, silk, and sable or cloth made of or mixed with gold, silver, or tinsel.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, in the sense ‘sable fur’, from medieval Latin sabelum, of Slavic origin. adjectiveˈseɪbəlˈsābəl Heraldry literary Black. the sable blackness of her hair postpositive six martlets sable Example sentencesExamples - Other sources indicate the Irish setter was used in early breeding - the collie's sable color may be the indirect result of such a cross.
- Valarie brushed a lock of sable hair off her shoulder and twirled around proudly, ‘Like my outfit?’
- Chocolate brown eyes had been coloured sable with grief and longing, and that added to the visible exhaustion of what could only be more than a week's worth of sleeplessness…
- He pulled Rochelle's sable ringlets away from her neck and began to kiss it.
- Although her intended audience is not black, she still refers to ‘our sable race.’
- My wife and girls fell instantly into dreams while I navigated a causeway suspended between an indigo sky and the sable sea, two voluptuous bodies winking at each other like old lovers.
- As expected, the door opened to reveal Aunt Demeter's porcelain, rose-accented features and sable hair.
- Unlike the dragon so pictured, its sable scales shimmered with an inner light, a fire, a pulse, and seemed almost transparent.
- Her own sable tresses fell into her eyes and she carelessly brushed them away, deeper things on her mind than her chosen body.
- The carriage door swung open, revealing a tall woman with sable hair and dressed in an azure gown, bringing out her gray-blue eyes.
- Two thirds of it was lined with sable bookcases, all stuffed to the gills with heavyweight texts on every subject conceivable.
- The maiden brushed a strand of sable hair behind her ear and gazed straight into the eyes of her nervous king, the emeralds set into her own face unnervingly refusing to blink.
- The peculiar thing was that sable curtains blocked the inside of the store from view.
- Her skin was sable black and shining lightening blue.
- Servants in their traditional livery continued about their tasks, sable bands about their arms in honor.
- If you have brown eyes, stick with taupe, sable and mocha hues.
- Her hair matched the sable shade of Belinda's skin.
- The family arms were; ‘Argent, a fess between six crosslets fitchee sable.’
- The most frequently seen are shades of darkest red to lightest cream, some with sable accents; but many Poms occur in solid black, black and tan, and parti-colors.
- Jane is a black / sable / tan medium-sized cross breed, approx. 8-10 years old.
- As though in a trance they stood, staring at that white mask with its black eyes and frame of sable hair, paralyzed by hesitation.
- Adele stopped reading and met Dana's sable eyes with her own lavender ones.
- Sauron has accepted victory, and the sable banners of the Lidless Eye will be hoisted over the walls of the captured city.
- As he left, he did not notice the hateful eyes of the sable raven, watching Calanthas go, from a windowsill.
- He had the palest skin she had ever seen, milky white, and he was topped with a neatly cropped head of sable hair.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, pitchy, ebony, raven, sooty, dusky, ink-black, inky, black as ink, coal-black, black as coal, black as night
nounˈseɪbəlˈsābəl 1Heraldry
literary Black. Example sentencesExamples - Other solid colours include sable, buff, red and chocolate.
- For instance, the use of the word sable to describe the skin color of her race imparts a suggestion of rarity and richness that also makes affiliation with the group of which she is a part something to be desired and even sought after.
- The pants were plain enough, tight, but of a good silk in a rich sable.
- They say he's tall and handsome, and that his hair is as black as sable.
- Shar-Pei come in just about every colour there is - black, red, red-fawn, fawn, black-pointed cream, sable and blue.
- Colours are orchestrated in dark tones, such as sable, olive and black accented with flashes of ultramarine.
- The Tonkinese occurs in four colors: natural, which is also called sable or seal; champagne, also called chocolate; platinum, also called lilac or frost; and blue.
- He would have liked to have seen her sable colored hair in a less formal style.
- I also noticed she had tattooed-on eyebrows in a lovely shade of sable.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, pitchy, ebony, raven, sooty, dusky, ink-black, inky, black as ink, coal-black, black as coal, black as night - 1.1sablesarchaic Mourning garments.
Example sentencesExamples - Our spirits are dressed in sables, and to laugh so very suddenly seems out of character.
- He is in mourning for his father still, even though it's been 3 years, and goes about dressed in sables which people think terribly unfashionable.
2A large African antelope with long curved horns, the male of which has a black coat and the female a russet coat, both having a white belly. Hippotragus niger, family Bovidae Example sentencesExamples - The 50,000 acres of land at Gourlays Ranch is a recognised wildlife conservancy, home to thousands of animals including elephants, leopards, sables and kudus.
- Lions are about the only predators strong enough to bring down a healthy sable.
- The handsome sable antelope of eastern and southern Africa belongs to a group called sabre-horned antelopes, because of their long, scimitar-shaped horns.
- Antelopes are well represented here, particularly the sable antelope which shows off their extravagant horns as they proudly march between stands of miombo woodland trees.
- The 14 species of the game include giraffes, zebras, sables, kudus, elands, impalas, pukus, waterbucks, reedbucks, siatoongas, bushbucks, common buickers and graycebucks.
- I grew up with impala and sable antelope, burnt-amber kudu, zebra and wiry wildebeest.
- Throughout Zimbabwe, 64 percent of kudu, 63 percent of giraffes, 56 percent of cheetahs, and 53 percent of sable antelope and impalas were on private ranch properties.
- The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and sable antelope.
- The Selous has huge herds of sable antelope and estimated 10,000 of them although they are rare in the tourist parts of this huge reserve.
- It is therefore, common to find different species of grazers co-existing with zebra, buffalo, sable, roan, hartebeest and wildebeest.
- Also present are elephant, sable antelope, reedbuck, common duiker, blue and vervet monkeys.
- The relocation is the first phase of a resettlement programme of several wildlife species, including giant sable and red buffalo, to Kissama over the next five years.
Origin Middle English: from Old French (as a heraldic term), generally taken to be identical with sable, although sable fur is dark brown. |