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teacup

/tee-kuhp/US // ˈtiˌkʌp //UK // (ˈtiːˌkʌp) //

茶杯,茶碗,水杯,杯子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size.
    • : a teacupful.

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Examples

  • In one scene, a raving Amanda squeezes a pink teacup until it shatters, the shards bloodying her hands.

  • Spend enough time in a small spinning teacup and your stomach may soon object.

  • This force seems to pull us to the outside edge of the rotating teacup.

  • When my mother was growing up in Busan, sujeonggwa was something rich families drank year round, but she would have it only on Chuseok, and only a small teacup of it.

  • Elle magazine shot an editorial in September, one picture revealing a teacup pig sitting pretty by a mini Tyler Alexandra bag.

  • She dried the teacup with a worn mildewed hand towel, also embroidered with Lily of the Valley.

  • He licked them up with a slick bronzy tongue and spat a thick wad of honey-brown juice into the empty teacup.

  • He sat his mug of coffee and the empty teacup on the glass table in front of him.

  • He pulled a bone china teacup printed with white floral bells, Lily of the Valley, from one of the cabinets.

  • A German receiver can be washed out like a teacup, and the oil collected is of value, but a meerschaum should never be wetted.

  • A correspondent points out that if that amount has ever been left in the bottom of his teacup it was an oversight.

  • In spite of her tirade, he had a feeling that it didn't matter, that she must bluster in her tiny teacup if she wanted to do so.

  • I sat a little away from her, and then took my teacup in hand, with an odd effect of defending myself.

  • When one man hit another on the head with this fragile china, the skull cracked before the teacup did.