trinket

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Jewellerytrinkettrin‧ket /ˈtrɪŋkɪt/ noun [countable] DCJa piece of jewellery or a small pretty object that is not valuableExamples from the Corpustrinket• Malongo was charmed by the idea that it suggested crass ambition and mindless spending on consumer trinkets.• One shelf displayed trinkets from each country she had visited.• Women and girls would pile flowers, trinkets and gifts on stage at his feet.• Chief Auctioneer, Michael Welch, suggests that silver, brass or other trinkets could well fetch a tidy sum.• Where others see trinkets, Romans see the holy grail: something for nothing.• Others survive by begging, selling trinkets or scavenging on rubbish tips.• House rules allow only minor gifts such as shirts and souvenir trinkets.• She walked in the woods at the edge of the meadow and looked at the trinkets in the boughs.Origin trinket (1500-1600) Perhaps from trenket “small knife” ((15-16 centuries)), from Old North French trenquet, from trenquer “to cut”

单词	trinket
释义	trinket From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Jewellerytrinkettrin‧ket /ˈtrɪŋkɪt/ noun [countable] DCJa piece of jewellery or a small pretty object that is not valuableExamples from the Corpustrinket• Malongo was charmed by the idea that it suggested crass ambition and mindless spending on consumer trinkets.• One shelf displayed trinkets from each country she had visited.• Women and girls would pile flowers, trinkets and gifts on stage at his feet.• Chief Auctioneer, Michael Welch, suggests that silver, brass or other trinkets could well fetch a tidy sum.• Where others see trinkets, Romans see the holy grail: something for nothing.• Others survive by begging, selling trinkets or scavenging on rubbish tips.• House rules allow only minor gifts such as shirts and souvenir trinkets.• She walked in the woods at the edge of the meadow and looked at the trinkets in the boughs.Origin trinket (1500-1600) Perhaps from trenket “small knife” ((15-16 centuries)), from Old North French trenquet, from trenquer “to cut”
随便看	from place to place/house to house etc from point of view from quarters from rags to riches from scratch from side to side from small beginnings from somebody’s perspective from somebody’s point of view from somebody’s viewpoint/from the viewpoint of somebody/something from something to something from square one from that day etc forward from that moment etc forward from that time etc forward from that/this day/time/moment etc forward from the (very) first from the bottom of your heart from the chairman etc downwards from the chairman/president/top etc downwards from the cradle to the grave from the direction of from the direction of something from the east from the first