Bronze

(noun.) a sculpture made of bronze.

(noun.) an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin.

(verb.) give the color and appearance of bronze to something; 'bronze baby shoes'.

(adj.) of the color of bronze .

(adj.) made from or consisting of bronze .

录入:玛丽

• Great cast bronze guns of about the same weight as the Hindoo guns were also produced at St. Petersburg, Russia, in the sixteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Like a thing of bronze, motionless as death, sat Tarzan. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Smooth-bore cannon and mortars of cast-iron and bronze are still retained in some fortresses, though rifled cannon are the only type now made. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The _Tsar-Pooschka_, the great bronze gun of Moscow, cast in 1586, was even larger, and had a bore 36 inches in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Beside her was a mahogany stand bearing a cast bronze lamp with an engraved globe, over which a green paper shade had been balanced. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It's wrote on gilt-edged paper,' said Sam, as he unfolded it, 'and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door key. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The passion came up in him, stroke after stroke, like the ringing of a bronze bell, so strong and unflawed and indomitable. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The knowledge of bronze spread late in Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sculpture had always seemed a dull business--still, bronzes looked like something. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

校对:奥利弗