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bauble

/baw-buhl/US // ˈbɔ bəl //UK // (ˈbɔːbəl) //

小饰品,小玩意,饰品,小玩意儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
    • : a jester's scepter.

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Examples

  • Justice is not some bauble to be sold to the highest bidder.

  • The chain’s advertising tactics shifted again in 1979, introducing the Happy Meal with its precious toy baubles.

  • For this apparently new and shiny one-state bauble is in fact a prudently discarded historical relic.

  • This would not include the occasional sapphire or emerald bauble, nor the gold or pearl necessities.

  • Finally I located and extracted the missing bauble, and with a triumphant whoop Elizabeth led me back into the waiting room.

  • Domino was a beautiful bauble, but its disappearance was a fairly minor loss to the wider culture.

  • The object had something of the form of a jester's bauble with points, which hung flabby and undulating.

  • A shout of laughter burst from the mob, and the clown flourished his bauble and bowed acknowledgments from side to side.

  • His eyes dimmed as they conveyed to him the image of his still beloved Imperatorskoye—he pressed the bauble to his lips.

  • Rising, Bon Vouloir, amid the exclamations of the court, claimed the privilege that went with the bauble.

  • Never anything but trouble has followed in the wake of that unhappy bauble of vanity since it first put in its appearance.