| 词汇 | example_english_cotton-wool |
| 释义 | Examples of cotton woolThese 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. To encourage oviposition, filter paper was placed on top of moistened cottonwool in a tubular support at the base of the cages. A small container of cottonwool soaked with water was also placed in the experimental arena, as were pollen, honey and sugar cubes. All air entering the building passed through cottonwool filters. A small container of cottonwool soaked with water was also placed in the experimental arena so flies were permanently water-sated. A piece of cottonwool saturated with 10% honey solution was supplied in each vial as food source for the adult wasps. The cut stems were placed in a conical flask filled with water and sealed around the base of the stem using cottonwool and parafilm. All cocoons that formed from parasitized hosts were removed from the stems and kept separately in vials plugged with cottonwool. Leaves were maintained fresh during the experiment by small plastic vials with water and cottonwool surrounding the petiole. The tubes were covered with cottonwool and kept in an incubator at the temperature and relative humidity indicated above. Each vial contained a single wasp and the vial was closed with two plugs of cottonwool before release. Each assay was performed with two germination chambers (replicates) containing 50 seeds placed on a layer of cottonwool moistened with distilled water. Both ends of each tube were plugged with cottonwool. Emerging insects were provided with water-soaked cottonwool, honey droplets, and a yeast/sugar diet. In order to release the parasitoid, each vial could be opened from the outside of the container by pulling strings that were attached to the cottonwool plugs. An 8% sugar-water solution put in a vial plugged with cottonwool was provided to feed the moths, and balsam fir branches bearing lichens were added for oviposition. X-rays show a variety of patterns: osteolytic lesions, the typical cottonwool appearance of the skull and condensation and sclerosis of vertebrae and other parts of the skeleton. Unless stated otherwise, experimental units comprised 400 cm3 polystyrene food containers with lids ventilated by a single 1 cm diameter hole plugged with non-absorbent cottonwool. The minute parasitoid larvae were put into pipette tips of various diameters sealed on the sides with cottonwool plugs, to avoid their loss during drying. Hypertension results in retinopathy with retinal vascular changes and occlusions causing inner retinal ischaemia and cottonwool spots108 and the extravascular changes of haemorrhage, lipid deposits (hard exudates) and oedema. On eclosion, females had a piece of human hair tied around one of their fore-wings and were maintained on a diet of c. 10% sugar solution on cottonwool. But we should be aware that people who want to make use of this opportunity are not always wrapped in cottonwool. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is for that reason that the public do not want to be wrapped up in cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that small firms wish to be wrapped up for ever in a mass of cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We start, as it were, with cottonwool and not with marble. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You might as well be fighting with cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The earphones would enable people to listen to it: the cottonwool would not prevent people from hearing it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are finding ourselves fighting cottonwool in this debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The doctor sometimes has to prescribe cottonwool, insulin and methylated spirits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does it also cover the use of wool and mixtures of cottonwool? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A mouth swab simply involves rubbing cottonwool against the inside of a lip. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time we must recognise the fact that we cannot "cottonwool" the nation today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 During the course of a year the diabetic will require insulin, a syringe, spare needles, cottonwool, surgical spirit and a reagent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that the way to modernise our country is to wrap us up in cocoons of cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is never really fresh and never really stale, and its texture could well be likened to that of high-grade cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it cannot survive without six people standing around holding it in cottonwool, do not let it claim that it is adventurous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have seen bottles of medical tablets which were almost half filled with cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This report wants to wrap tourists in cottonwool, especially tourists who fly. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English One cannot go round this country and the world wrapping up various countries and various industries in cottonwool—one has not enough cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was like trying to get hold of a cottonwool cloud. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It wraps a man's thoughts round like cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I mentioned cottonwool because of the great bulk involved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To wrap it up in the cottonwool of controls and restrictions is more liable to weaken than strengthen it as a currency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had cottonwool on prescription for a number of years following a prostate operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When the crisis came, that hospital asked for a supply of instruments, cottonwool, dressings and morphia. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A diabetic has to have two kinds of insulin, needles, spirit and cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One cannot protect an international currency like sterling by wrapping it up in the cottonwool of exchange controls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot wrap everyone up in cottonwool for 24 hours of every day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard this evening of people having to eat cottonwool bread—having it stuffed down their throats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are all sorts of people who resent the thrusting of this formal, cottonwool religion down their throats at every opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But architectural heritage is not something that one cocoons in cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of it seemed to be a black hole wrapped in cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is designed to wrap round those bonds a certain amount of cottonwool in order that those concerned shall not notice them so much. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was, to put it more bluntly, a sort of age of cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You have a large jar with a pad of cottonwool at the bottom soaked in ether. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can only hope that the doctor does not realise the purpose to which the cottonwool is put. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That means that in future we shall cease to have offered to us such things as meringues made from cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For instance, would a ton of cottonwool cost the same to transport as a ton of steel? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not want to be cosseted in subsidies and cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It does not matter to us whether its throat is cut or it is smothered in cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will they serve effectively to eliminate bias without reducing broadcasting to just a mess of cottonwool? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to go, while life lasts, for our regular supply of insulin, needles, cottonwool, surgical spirit, etc. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he aware that in these circumstances we are getting steamed cottonwool instead of honestly baked bread, and will he do something about it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The report has now been wrapped up in social democratic cottonwool, its language - originally unmistakeable - robbed of its punch. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English After all, what is the good of wrapping them up in cottonwool and keeping them in the dark? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For example, large blocks of cottonwool have of necessity to be put at the top of some containers to prevent technical deterioration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Trying to establish what has happened is like punching at cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not meant to be kept in cottonwool because a scholar may one day want to look at them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under the present arrangement they are practically wrapped up in cottonwool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He gave the usual, "waffly", cottonwool-type of answer shrouded in a veil of secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When my doctor asked why he still needed cottonwool, the patient said that he required it because of the prostate operation. 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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