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charlotte

/shahr-luht/US // ˈʃɑr lət //UK // (ˈʃɑːlət) //

夏洛特,沙洛特,夏洛特人,夏洛蒂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a dessert of many varieties, served hot or cold and commonly made by lining a mold with cake or bread and filling it with fruit, whipped cream, custard, or gelatin.
    • : the mold used in making this dessert.

Examples

  • After taking a “when in Rome” approach during the glorious three-week trip, I hit the Charlotte airport and got the biggest Diet Coke I could find, with enough ice to float a few seals.

  • Including Monday night’s victory over the Charlotte Hornets — in which Utah buried Charlotte with a franchise-record 28 three-pointers — the Jazz have won 10 of their past 11 contests and 21 of their past 23.

  • Schottenheimer lived outside Charlotte in retirement and was a licensed pilot.

  • We lived in Union County, North Carolina, right outside of Charlotte.

  • When the original Sex and the City movie made its big-screen debut in 2008, not only did the infamous friend group of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha make waves.

  • Virginia Woolf loved Wuthering Heights and considered Emily Brontë superior to her sister Charlotte.

  • A teenage fashion designer from Texas is showing at NYFW alongside heroes like Charlotte Ronson and Marc Jacobs.

  • It was the LEGO Friends line, after all, that prompted young Charlotte to pen the most adorable angry letter in consumer history.

  • Charlotte Marshall, a privately practicing clinical psychologist in Adelaide, South Australia echoed Harper.

  • Against the Charlotte Hornets, he put up 26 points and 11 rebounds, but he also lost the ball six times.

  • British cannonaded and bombarded the town of Charlotte at the mouth of Genesee river.

  • Reduced to suffering by the sudden death of her husband, she concealed her misfortunes under the name of Mme. Charlotte.

  • They were the ships Detroit and Queen Charlotte, a large brig, two schooners, and a sloop.

  • (p. 297) Picton, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound, is picturesquely situated, with a good wharf.

  • Miss Charlotte she held her head up like a queen while Buck was telling his tale, and her nostrils spread and her eyes snapped.

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