thistledown

英式音标：[ˈθɪsldaʊn]

美式音标：[ˈθɪsəlˌdaʊn]

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词义：

n.

蓟花的冠毛；

adj.

非常轻的；

英英释义

thistledown[ 'θisldaun ]

n.pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seedlike fruit of a thistle

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

It is as light as thistledown.
它和蓟花的冠毛一样轻。

权威例句

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Sean Johnston. The Ditch Was Lit Like This. Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 2011

造句：

1. It is as light as thistledown.

它和蓟花的冠毛一样轻。

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2. Still talking, their words tumbling like thistledown on the hot butterflied silence.

他们仍然在说着话，可是在热切而浮想翩翩的寂静中，他们的话语变得像蓟花冠毛一样飘浮不定。

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3. It makes mock of your sound senses, and lays them in thistledown like fragile vessels.

它嘲笑你们健全的意识，把它们像脆弱的器皿般置于蓟绒下。

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4. To his delight and relief the dentist's touch was, if not quite as light as thistledown, at least sensitive, and certainly far from the brutal assault he had feared.

让他欣慰的是牙医的手脚虽然不能说轻如飞絮，但起码也是小心翼翼的；当然远远不是他起初害怕的那种残忍的动作。

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5. To his delight and relief the dentist's touch was, if not quite as light as thistledown, at least sensitive, and certainly far from the brutal assault he had feared.

让他欣慰的是牙医的手脚虽然不能说轻如飞絮，但起码也是小心翼翼的；当然远远不是他起初害怕的那种残忍的动作。

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