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red-letter

/red-let-er/US // ˈrɛdˈlɛt ər //

红字,红信,红字型,红字的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by red letters, as festival days in the church calendar.
    • : memorable; especially important or happy: a red-letter day in his life.
    • : having the quoted words of Jesus appear in red type: a red-letter edition;the red-letter New Testament presented at her baptism.

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Examples

  • Former Red Sox star Curt Schilling says his politics are keeping him out of Cooperstown.

  • Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.

  • There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.

  • A Republican candidate hoping to win red state support could find a worse team to root for than one from Dallas.

  • The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.

  • Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.

  • Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.

  • “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

  • Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.

  • He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.