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stubble

/stuhb-uhl/US // ˈstʌb əl //UK // (ˈstʌbəl) //

残羹剩饭,残枝,残余物,残羹剩菜

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually stubbles. the stumps of grain and other stalks left in the ground when the crop is cut.
    • : such stumps collectively.
    • : any short, rough growth, as of beard.

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Examples

  • The clippers can bring your beard into stubble territory with ease.

  • Most of the time, I’ll have a few days’ worth of beard stubble, which acts like Velcro when I’m trying to schmear on regular sunblock.

  • You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on his forehead, the blemishes on his skin.

  • My captain on the boat, Brazakka, he wanted me to do this Hemingway bit, with the white stubble, and he wanted the hero angle.

  • After a few years of stubble, the lumberjack whiskers returned, now dyed black.

  • There was lots of heavy makeup,” Sheppard says, “to cover up the stubble.

  • He dips his brush into the green paint and giggles, saying that my stubble makes this harder.

  • He compliments us on our stubble, and we are pleased by this.

  • You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.

  • And greenish among the stubble, upon a spear of blond barley, with a double row of seeds, I saw a prègo-diéu.

  • Left and right, each felling his man; and cimeters dashed from hands as stubble, shields were smitten through as if of gauze.

  • The fire was dying down a little, but one persistent flame moved like a snake in the dry stubble, and he savagely stamped it out.

  • They kept it up for about thirty rods and then Sheppy stumbled over a corn stubble and lost a few feet.