英语释义

1. a precious stone gem

2. an ornament of precious metal often set with stones or decorated with enamel and worn as an accessory of dress

3. one that is highly esteemed
regarded the library as the jewel of the campus

4. a bearing for a pivot (as in a watch) made of crystal, glass, or a gem

5. to adorn or equip with jewels

6. to give beauty to as if with jewels embellish

7. a valuable stone (such as a ruby or diamond) that has been cut and polished

8. a piece of jewelry (such as a necklace or a bracelet) that is made of valuable metal and precious stones

9. someone or something that is highly valued or admired

10. gem sense 1

11. an ornament of precious metal often set with gemstones and worn on the body

12. a person who is greatly admired

英汉例句

• they forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.

  他们把珠宝转移到了一个较为安全的地方，阻止了任何偷窃珠宝的企图。

• accounts of the ceremony vary, but they consistently say the new ruler was covered with gold dust, and that gold and precious jewels were thrown into the lake to appease a god that lived underwater.

  人们对这个仪式的描述多种多样，但他们都一致道出新统治者全身覆盖金粉，并且还向湖内扔黄金和贵重珠宝以平息住在水下的神灵。

• these discovered patterns are the crown jewels of your company because they are design elements that capture something useful about the way the company does business.

  这些已发现模式就像是您公司皇冠上的珠宝，因为它们是实现公司运行方式的设计元素。

• yet the appetite that appeared to drive, at times even define her, exceeded mere food to include everything, and her consumption of men, booze, jewels and celebrity itself was an astonishment.

  好胃口驱使她，甚至有时候规定她必须这么做，但泰勒的胃口超越食物包含了一切。她对男人、烈性酒、珠宝和名望的消耗也相当惊人。

• she reminds us that they were originally written as semi-secret court entertainments, scribbled on bits of paper and passed from hand to hand, like jewels or flowers, as part of love-games.

  她提醒我们，起初它们只是半隐秘状态的宫廷娱乐的应景之作---潦草的写在纸片上，手手相传，就像珠宝和鲜花，作为恋爱游戏的一部分。

• jewels in the crown? or dollars in the making?

  王冠上的珠宝？或是制作中的货币？

• if a woman did not desire clothes or jewels or children, she’d said, taking up his tone, although she was the target of its mockery, she would harbor some other form of unreasonable greed, no?

  尽管苏晨是他嘲笑的对象，她接着他的口气说，「假如一个女人不要衣服，珠宝或孩子，那么她总可以有一些什么别的合理要求吧？」

• 「she had her dresses encrusted with quite spectacular jewels and women of the court followed suit,」 she notes.

  「她把她的裙子镶上相当壮观的珠宝，然后宫廷里的女人开始效仿这种着装。」

• obviously her position was by no means so bad as he had feared, and it crossed his mind that she must somehow have claimed and sold the jewels to attain it.

  显然，她的处境决不是像他担心的那样糟糕了，心里突然想，她一定是想法把那些珠宝取出来卖了过这种日子的。

• your potential is like those jewels with a dazzling array of facets.

  而你的潜能就像那些各个鉆面上闪烁着眩目光彩的宝石一般。

• but the most impressive items are the jewels found in the bundle.

  但是最令人印象深刻的物品是发现与包裹中的宝石。

• for decades kings had showered her with jewels and honours, students had strewn petals in her path, crowds at railway stations had thrown down their coats before her.

  几十年来，国王赐予她无尽的珠宝和荣誉，学生们在她的道路上撒满花瓣，火车站的人潮把他们的大衣扔到她前面。

相似词

brilliant灿烂的，闪耀的；杰出的；有才气的；精彩的，绝妙的

gem最佳品质的

gemstone（经雕琢的）宝石