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shoebox

/shoo-boks/US // ˈʃuˌbɒks //

鞋盒,鞋柜,鞋箱,鞋盒子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an oblong cardboard box of a standard size used to package a pair of shoes for sale.
    • : any house, building, or other construction likened to a shoebox because of its shape or cramped area.

Examples

  • The unit is the size of a large shoebox and it’s designed to fit easily under your bed.

  • “Not a big seller,” she says, pulling out a shoebox with a few Benedict tokens.

  • He was breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal.

  • I looked down at the shoebox-sized container in front of me.

  • PF: We have an old shoebox full of Polaroids of the ones who didn't make it.

  • When I returned the head barber handed me quite a large box—a shoebox—with a string tied round it.

  • He left the box, walking off into the gathering crowd, and this mastodon seemed to spring into being where the shoebox had been.

  • When she returned, hopeless and hungry, to her seat there was a neatly wrapped shoebox lying on the dusty plush cushion.

  • “We have a whole shoebox full of them at the post,” Lunt yelled to him above the din.

  • We were hungry; so we spread out the shoebox lunch on one of the Cluny-lace covers and ate it, mostly in silence.