hourglass
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈaʊə.ɡlɑːs]
- 美式音标 [ˈaʊr.ɡlæs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.時漏；砂漏；水漏
英汉例句
- Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
愛情就象一個砂漏,儅腦子倒空的時候心就被填滿了。 - Once the sands have run out of a person's hourglass, they can not be replaced.
一個人的沙漏計時器中的沙子一旦流走了，那是無法彌補的。
用作名詞 (n.)
英英字典
- a glass container filled with sand that takes one hour to move from an upper to a lower part through a narrow opening in the middle, used especially in the past to measure time