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单词	hourglass
释义	hourglass /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs / noun 1A timing device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper to the lower bulb.The invention of timekeeping devices - hourglasses, water clocks, graduated tapers - made it possible for early civilized people to begin to control and standardize the units of time, and in doing so to coordinate their lives.... When you run out of paper or the words you write are jumbled up, think of the hourglass passing sand from the top to the bottom. The last sands of the hourglass passed through and it turned over, beginning again. 1.1 [as modifier] Shaped like an hourglass: her hourglass figure... Often these ideals take the form of ridiculously unfeasible forms with unhealthily exaggerated hourglass figures. Even the dolls that girls play with are thin and have hourglass figures. She's still a girl, but she's got that hourglass figure, and she really enhances it.
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