| 单词 | china |
| 释义 | china (once / 3211 pages) n China is a kind of ceramic or porcelain tableware. If your grandmother asks you to put the china on the table, you'll grab a stack of plates. You can use the word china, with a lowercase c, to mean dishes or plates in general, although the word usually specifies a fine, high-quality kind of ceramic. A china tea cup is delicate, and has a matching saucer, and your dad's best china might only come out at Thanksgiving. Because this delicate kind of dish was originally imported from China, it was first called Chinaware, later shortened to china. WORD FAMILYchina: chinas USAGE EXAMPLESBorn in Europe, she was a fabulous cook and entertained beautifully — silver always polished, china laid just so. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) All that marble, those heavy drapes and selecting new china. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) The dining room is set with the state china and dark red napkins with greens and wreaths hanging on the mantles and windows. Washington Times(Dec 18, 2016) 1n high quality porcelain originally made only in China Hypo|Hyper bone china fine porcelain that contains bone ash crackle, crackle china, cracklewareglazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface porcelain ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic 2n dishware made of high quality porcelain Syn|Hypo|Hyper chinaware willow-pattern, willowware chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river crockery, dishware tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively China (once / 148 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY China: Chinas USAGE EXAMPLES“China became quite aware that even in their ‘legal market’ there was tremendous laundering through an illegal system,” Ms. Lieberman said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mr Trump also berated China for failing to help rein in its ally North Korea. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) There was no immediate reaction from China to Trump’s tweet. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1 n a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world 2Syn|Exp Cathay, Communist China, PRC, People's Republic of China, Red China, mainland China Asian country, Asian nation any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent n a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong Syn|Exp Nationalist China, Republic of China, Taiwan island a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water |
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