Irons

(noun.) metal shackles; for hands or legs.

编辑:桑德拉

• I was put in irons, brought to trial again, and sent for life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I remember Mr. Cheshire, with his irons, trying to make people straight when the Almighty had made them crooked. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Hall had thick steel plates dovetailed together; and angle irons tenoned at the corners. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Gladiators who objected to fight for any reason were driven on by whips and hot irons. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Bartholomew Irons--to the disappointment of the irregular prelate. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Heat the irons; with my own hands I shall burn the eyes from his head that he may not pollute my person with his vile gaze. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The current sent through our electric stoves and irons should be strong enough to heat the coils, but not strong enough to melt them. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I've got a gang of boys, sir, said the long man, resuming his attack on the fire-irons, and I jest tells 'em--'Boys,' says I,--'_run_ now! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Table knives, plane irons and chisels of a very superior kind are made of shear steel, while common steel is wrought up into ordinary cutlery. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• On a permanently constructed pocket table, right-angled plugs of the rubber cushion are screwed to the corner pocket irons and straight sections are screwed to the side pocket irons. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There was but a yard between the two mighty ships as the first grappling irons were hurled. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Electric irons are particularly valuable in summer, because they eliminate the necessity for a strong fire, and spare the housewife intense heat. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• We have already mentioned how an electrical engineer, shortly after placing irons in the homes of his customers, followed them with a number of small stoves and ovens. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

沙琳编辑