| 词汇 | catherine-wheel |
| 释义 | catherine wheel noun[ C ] uk /ˈkæθ.rɪn ˌwiːl/ us /ˈkæθ.rɪn ˌwiːl/ a round firework that is attached to a stick and that spins around轮转焰火 budgetstockphoto/ iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Fireworks banger cracker firecracker firework fuse fuze pyrotechnic pyrotechnician pyrotechnics rocket Roman candle sparkler squib touchpaper He touched off in quick succession a set of fierce rockets, angry catherine wheels, loudly exploding squibs—and the matter might have turned out very serious. Examples of catherine wheelcatherine wheel Trevithick's engine comprised a boiler feeding a hollow axle to route the steam to a catherine wheel with two fine-bore steam jets on its circumference. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is rather like the last few spluttering turns of an extinguishing catherinewheel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The contents of my head are now spinning round like a catherinewheel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I come from the old school of sparklers and catherine wheels; the worst thing we had was bangers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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