chocolate-box
巧克力盒,巧克力盒子,巧克力箱,朱古力盒
Definitions
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- : excessively decorative and sentimental, as the pictures or designs on some boxes of chocolate candy; prettified: decorous, chocolate-box paintings of Victorian garden parties.
Examples
In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
He goes into some detail into what it took to persuade voters to pass marriage equality at the ballot box in four states in 2012.
How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.
By 2012, the marriage equality movement had won in courts and legislatures—but not at the ballot box.
That November, many of us were stunned as voters in four states supported marriage equality at the ballot box.
Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she held out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.
Mrs. Newbolt was cutting splints for her new sun-bonnet out of a pasteboard box.
With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.