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skerry

/sker-ee/US // ˈskɛr i //UK // (ˈskɛrɪ) //

溜冰场,溜冰鞋,溜冰,溜须拍马

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sker·ries.Chiefly Scot.

    • : a small, rocky island.
    • : a coastline with a series of such islands offshore.

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Examples

  • Skerry Hill was the absurdly-named trading store of a man named Minton, and at present it was in a state of siege.

  • But he was so much more sharp-sighted than they, that he was able to discern men upon the skerry. '

  • There was only one spot where even in moderate weather a landing could be without difficulty effected on Ossa Skerry.

  • At last they got sufficiently to the westward to look along the outer side of Ossa Skerry.

  • I've boiled 'undreds of 'em—Skerry blues, magnums, queen of them all, Cheshires—none of 'em takes more than half an hour.