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A wand is a thin stick, often used for special or magical purposes — a magician or witch in a story a "magic wand" to cast a spell. In real life, you'll also hear "wand" for a hand-held scanner (like the one security guards use at the airport, or a barcode scanner) and for the thin stick an orchestra conductor .
(魔法)棒;(安檢/掃描)手持儀
組成Probably from an old Norse word for a thin stick or rod.
原始詞典資料9 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。
Wandname
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A surname.
wandnoun/wɒnd/
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A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- Then all of a sudden a number of armed men arranged in companies, and marshalled by officers who held ivory wands in their hands, came running swiftly towards us, having, so far as I could make out, emerged from the face of the precipice like ants from their burrows.
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A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- Love is that blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart.
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An instrument shaped like a wand.
- curling wand
- Shop vac serves as blower to force vermiculite in fiber drum up through vacuum-cleaner wand and hose into wall opening
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A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
- In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow-wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.
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A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
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informalball-gamesgameshobbiesA player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- Without question, he is the best left-footed player I've ever played with. Along with his wand of a left foot he also has great pace and can be as hard as nails.
- Shortly afterwards, Thomas lined up a corner and with his wand of a right foot, landed it on the head of Campbell to get Everton's second.
wandverb/wɒnd/
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To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a handheld metal detector.
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To use a handheld vibrator (the sex toy) on (a person or body part).
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。