potnoun(CONTAINER)
 
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He was clasping the vase tightly, terrified of dropping it.他紧紧抱住花瓶，生怕把它摔了。
The vase landed on the floor with a crash.花瓶砰的一声掉在了地板上。
An antique dealer had dated the vase at 1734.
I'm in the doghouse - I broke Sara's favourite vase this morning.我惹麻烦了——今天早晨我把萨拉最喜爱的花瓶给打碎了。
"I'm sorry I broke the vase." "Oh, that's all right . It wasn't very expensive."

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vase | American Dictionary

vase
noun[ C ]
us/veɪs, veɪz, vɑz/
a container for holding flowers or for decoration:
Please put this vase of flowers on the table.

Examples of vase

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Some sorts of imagery are more purely visual than spatial, as when you simply imagine the colors and shapes of a vase of flowers.
The workers, in searching for treasure at the bottom of the vase, had accidentally broken it in half.
It would be constant, and yield the more-or-less constant mock sensory input of a vase of flowers.
In addition, the central program is more grid-like (less fluid) than other vase programs, and the profile figures are vertical rather than horizontal.
The relativist says that arguing about ethics is like arguing whether a vase of flowers appears in the mirror in an empty room.
Finally, in mere size, this vase is larger than most.
They are the following: window (connoting 'communication', 1.1c), twilight (1.1b), wind (1.2), cave (1.11), mirror (1.15), milk (1.20), dove (1.24), and vase (1.55).
In a flash, the heads of the two ladies in the psychologist's picture are seen, rather than just the vase that is in the centre.
The vase was broken by the clumsy child.
Indeed, the fact that the vase broke might be due to some structural imperfection in the vase, which alone caused its spontaneous breaking.
These words were used in reference to a vase but the words were not produced immediately sequentially.
The stylistic and chemical data augment settlement and ceramic data to situate vase production in its local social and political environment.
This explanation would not point to any single salient consideration, but rather to "a detailed set of antecedent conditions" that causally determine the vase's breaking.
Furthermore, many sorts of visual imagery do not obviously involve any sort of motor component, as when one simply imagines a vase of flowers.
The final stages of vase production show zoomorphic handles almost completely in the round.
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