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waxwork

/waks-wurk/US // ˈwæksˌwɜrk //UK // (ˈwæksˌwɜːk) //

蜡像制品,蜡制品,蜡像作品,蜡像制作

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a figure, ornament, or other object made of wax, or especially the life-size effigy of a person.
    • : the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens.

Examples

  • Warne looked—in the words of the Daily Mail—“like a spooky waxwork.”

  • When Madame Tussauds unveiled their new waxwork of Kate, people queued up for a chance to feel “her” hair.

  • The world of human beings would then be just as dull and uninspiring as a waxwork show.

  • He lay there like a lifeless waxwork—blown through, like an apparatus out of order, to simulate breath, and doing it badly.

  • But that laugh started the machinery of the group of waxwork figures with the wax-white skins.

  • Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state.

  • It is one of the most beautiful of dessert fruits: it has no down on the skin, being entirely smooth and beautiful, like waxwork.