wax 中文

名词 (Noun)PLwaxes

(US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

(rare) The process of growing.

(dated) COL An outburst of anger.

VT To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

VT To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.

"I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th who'd been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded....

VT (archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.

VI (literary) To grow.

形容词 (Adjective)

Made of wax.
1. He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

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用于句中
- The manifestation of such philosophy seemed to wax and wane, being the most common one time, but virtually without followers at another, apparently disappearing.
- So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
- Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
用于句尾
- We've got pots, pans, the food and cooking utensils—the whole ball of wax.
- There appeared to be no difference in the movement of a dip-coat on glass or wax.

Definition of wax in English Dictionary