Shuttlecock

(noun.) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers.

(verb.) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock.

凯瑟琳编辑

• Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And shuttlecock, now--I don't know a finer game than shuttlecock for the daytime. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot--ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Doubtful which might be the clarionet-stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Adele here ran before him with her shuttlecock. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The window being accessible from the footway, he looked in over the blind, returned the shuttlecock, and put his question. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

录入:斯威尼