| 单词 | wax |
| 释义 | wax (wæks ) Word forms: waxes , waxing , waxed 1. variable noun Wax is a solid, slightly shiny substance made of fat or oil which is used to make candles and polish. It melts when it is heated. There were coloured candles which had spread pools of wax on the furniture. She loved the scent in the house of wax polish. 2. verb If you wax a surface, you put a thin layer of wax onto it, especially in order to polish it. We'd have long talks while she helped me wax the floor. [VERB noun] ...all those Sundays spent washing and waxing the car. [VERB noun] 3. verb If you have your legs waxed, you have the hair removed from your legs by having wax put on them and then pulled off quickly. She has just had her legs waxed at the local beauty parlour. [have noun VERB-ed] She would wax her legs, ready for the party. [VERB noun] 4. uncountable noun Wax is the sticky yellow substance found in your ears. 5. to wax lyrical verb If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way. He waxed lyrical about the skills and commitment of his employees. [VERB adjective] Tom sat himself down and waxed eloquent about all the advantages of the new plan. [VERB adjective] Synonyms: enthuse, rave [informal], gush, get carried away 6. wax and wane phrase If something waxes and wanes, it first increases and then decreases over a period of time. Portugal and Spain had possessed vast empires that waxed and waned. Idioms: the whole ball of wax [mainly US] the whole of something. The usual British expression is the whole caboodle. Perry wanted it all, the whole ball of wax. He wanted the Society for himself. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: wax model The wax model melts and flows out, while some of it vapourises. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The founders usually made a wax model from a draft and from this wax model a negative plaster cast was made, which could be reproduced more often. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wax models are lost, but drawings done after them go on display. Times, Sunday Times This meticulous method allowed them to create detailed wax models of individual organ systems ideal for teaching students of anatomy. Smithsonian Mag Wax figures of the missing stars soon feature as wax models in the museum and the police become suspicious. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 蜡, 给…上蜡 Japanese: 蝋, ワックスで磨く |
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