| 单词 | marbles |
| 释义 | marbles (once / 2020 pages) 1n 2n Marbles is the name of a game that you play with the round glass balls also called marbles. A World Marbles Championship has been held each year in Britain since 1932. Don't miss it this year. Marbles is a game that involves rolling marbles on a sidewalk, inside a marked circle. Players shoot or flick their marbles with their thumbs, aiming "shooters," larger marbles, at the smaller ones, and trying to keep their own marbles inside the circle while hitting other players' marbles out of it. Doing this gives the player a point, and they also get to keep the marble. To "lose your marbles" comes from American slang and means "go crazy." WORD FAMILYmarble: marbled, marbleise, marbleize, marbles, marbling, marmoreal, marmorean+/marbleise: marbleisation, marbleised, marbleising/marbleize: marbleization, marbleized, marbleizing/marbling: marblings USAGE EXAMPLESAnother important issue for Mr O'Hara was the return of the Elgin Marbles from the UK to Greece. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) Frankincense is more treelike, and its resin is milky, creating cloudy white marbles when dried. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) It causes them to lose their marbles, their judgment and sometimes their principles. The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) 1 n a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass) 2Hyper child's game a game enjoyed by children n the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind Syn|Hyper wits intelligence the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience |
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