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Valuable things that are collected or hidden away, like gold, jewels, or old coins - the kind of thing people dig up in pirate stories. As a verb, 'to treasure' something means to care about it deeply and consider it very precious, even if it isn't worth much money - you can treasure a memory, a friendship, or an old photo.
寶藏(名詞);珍惜、視為珍寶(動詞)
同家族的字
- treasuryboth come from the same root word for a store of valuable things - a treasury is a place that holds treasure
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Treasurename
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A surname.
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A female given name.
treasurenoun/ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
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A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
- It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff.
- "Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.
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Anything greatly valued.
- Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.
- You have ſent me a Treaſure, and I vvould not ſhare time to tell you ſo, till I had ſomevvhat ſatisfied the thirſt I had to drink dovvn many of thoſe Excellent Sermons, vvhich I have ſo long deſired: […]
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Anything greatly valued.
- "Hello, Treasure," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face.
- 'My treasure!' cried the fond lady, 'why didn't you tell Auntie sooner?' and for reply Cyril hung his head and whispered the fatal insuperable excuse of childhood: 'I didn't like to.'
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literaryAnything greatly valued.
treasureverb/ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
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To consider to be precious; to value highly.
- Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.
- I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ? I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ; I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.
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To store or stow in a safe place.
- The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.
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To amass or collect together as though a treasure.
- He seems to have carefully treasured up all the tales he heard, and he wrote and published them, under the feigned name of Gian Alesio Abbatutis, in his native dialect, not long before his death.
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obsoleteTo enrich.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。