shells / ʃɛl /

贝壳炮弹贝壳类

shells4 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
  2. any of various objects resembling such a covering, as in shape or in being more or less concave or hollow.
  3. the material constituting any of various coverings of this kind.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; remove the shell of.
  2. to separate from the ear, cob, or husk.
  3. to fire shells or explosive projectiles into, upon, or among; bombard.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to fall or come out of the shell, husk, etc.
  2. to come away or fall off, as a shell or outer coat.
  3. to gather sea shells: We spent the whole morning shelling while the tide was out.
v. 动词组 verb
  1. shell out, Informal. to hand over; contribute; pay.

shells 近义词

n. 名词 noun

structure; covering

shells构成的短语

  • shell out
  • in one's shell

更多shells例句

  1. The newest coach seats drop the upholstery and, instead, are shells molded to the human spine.
  2. Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.
  3. An exuberant game of football takes place, then the sound of shells is heard, and both sides repair back to their enemy positions.
  4. Once emblematic of American military muscle, the outposts are now skeletal shells.
  5. In 1957 the U.S. Army first fielded artillery able to fire shells with atomic warheads.
  6. First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
  7. From dawn to breakfast time all hands busy slinging shells—modern war sinews—piles of them—aboard.
  8. The shells came from Asia and Achi Baba:—in a fiery shower, they fell upon the lines of our front trenches.
  9. But, before they can be used for this purpose, these leaves are coated with lime made from oyster shells and then folded up.
  10. On the 18th fifty heavy shells, including 12-inch and 14-inch, dropped out of the blue vault of heaven on to the Anzacs.