Emerald

(noun.) the green color of an emerald.

(noun.) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.

(noun.) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone.

格拉迪斯校对

• I think that emerald is more beautiful than any of them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Here and there polished surfaces of ruby, emerald, and diamond patched the golden walls and ceiling. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• An emerald looks green because it freely transmits green, but absorbs the other colors of which ordinary daylight is composed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I understand that the emerald necklace she wore at the Opera last Friday had been sent on approval from Ball and Black's in the afternoon. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• This ring-- He slipped an emerald snake ring from his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emerald green cloth. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• To-day all this young verdure smiled clear in sunlight; transparent emerald and amber gleams played over it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and sleeves; and she had emerald-green stockings. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Jewels--historic pearls: the Sobieski emeralds--sables,--but she cares nothing for all these! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• And before a statue of one of those dead Medicis reposes a crown that blazes with diamonds and emeralds enough to buy a ship-of-the-line, almost. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

校对:米里亚姆