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sapphire

/saf-ahyuhr/US // ˈsæf aɪər //UK // (ˈsæfaɪə) //

蓝宝石,蓝宝石色,蓝宝石色的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
    • : a gem of this kind.
    • : the color of this gem, a deep blue.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : resembling sapphire; deep blue: a sapphire sky.

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Examples

  • As the largest of the Great Lakes, the sapphire blue waters and waves of Lake Superior can often feel like a vast, unending ocean to a passing motorist.

  • What you are getting is TAG Heuer design and materials, like a steel watch body and a superhard sapphire touchscreen.

  • If you’re looking for those sapphire-hued lake vistas, you’ll want to leash up your pooch and take them for a stroll along the park’s quarter-mile paved promenade at Rim Village.

  • Something about the impossibly deep sapphire water carries an almost mystical quality that grabs you by the retinas and doesn’t let go.

  • My partner and I rented a houseboat, loaded up on groceries, and were soon cruising around a vast expanse of sapphire water flecked with small islands.

  • One Sapphire, Kay, falls for a black soldier, even as she struggles with her Aboriginal identity.

  • His highly acclaimed, and highly controversial, 2009 film, Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, is a case in point.

  • “In my original notes I had that Precious would have a baby girl, then here comes this boy,” Sapphire says with a laugh.

  • Sapphire says that had she not already finished much of The Kid, the criticism would have “stopped me dead in my tracks.”

  • “The logical or realistic way this story would end up would be total disaster,” says Sapphire.

  • If you want to make a synthetic sapphire, you start with a seed sapphire, and the artificial process builds up on that.

  • Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

  • Sometimes sky and sea have been steeped in dazzling haze of golden glare, sometimes brightened to blue of a sapphire depth.

  • She was sitting on a low divan, head bent, slowly turning a sapphire ring on her finger, round and round.

  • We proceeded moderately and sedately upon our shining way, skirting the sapphire sea, dotted here and there with green islands.