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paperweight

/pey-per-weyt/US // ˈpeɪ pərˌweɪt //UK // (ˈpeɪpəˌweɪt) //

镇纸,纸镇,纸团,纸质镇流器

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.

Examples

  • I looked at my phone and it was just like, you know, a paperweight.

  • All of the work that comes with being an escort, and all of its attendant horrors, for this… paperweight?

  • The physical Hookie is an etched glass paperweight in the shape of a brilliant-cut diamond.

  • A paperweight that my mother gave me; it is made of dark blue glass and is in the shape of a heart.

  • It was broad but not heavy; the fingers that opened and shut quietly on a small paperweight were supple.

  • Next to it were several sheets of blank paper and a small traveling clock sat on them as a paperweight.

  • Even an odd stone he had found on the desert and brought into the Wigwam one day, she used now as a paperweight.

  • Kerk picked up a length of steel pipe from the desk, that he used as a paperweight, and toyed with it as he thought.

  • A paperweight representing a ragged little dog and an entomological photograph of the common ant.