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ashtray

/ash-trey/US // ˈæʃˌtreɪ //UK // (ˈæʃˌtreɪ) //

烟灰缸,烟缸,烟台,香烟盒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a receptacle for tobacco ashes of smokers.

Examples

  • His image on the book cover — smiling in a suit, holding a glass half-full of red wine and a lit Camel cigarette in an ashtray — conveys his old-school approach to politics.

  • Either way, “I will come out stronger,” she says, stubbing her cigarette in a glass ashtray.

  • On the desk, an ashtray is filled with 23-year-old cigarette butts and a gas mask.

  • A glass of vodka sat next to the ashtray on his night table.

  • Dice cracks a window so he can chain-smoke Marlboro Lights, using a glass of water as an ashtray.

  • Ten thousand; two in the front, two in the back, the rest in the ashtray.

  • He promptly offered an explanation for that slam and for his dismissal of Vice President Biden as “dumb as an ashtray.”

  • Jason stopped shaking the dice and looked at them quizzically, then reached over and grabbed the ashtray.

  • Hamilton carefully placed his cigar in the ashtray and tried to put a match into his mouth.

  • Then I came across something that looked like an ashtray with a blue electric shimmer obscuring the bottom of the bowl.

  • He would disgorge from the pit of his favourite ashtray all the toxins lodged in the burnt up tobacco.

  • (He quenches his cigar angrily on Bloom's ear) Where's that Goddamned cursed ashtray?