Oval

(a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.

(a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

(a.) Broadly elliptical.

(n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

录入:洛伦佐

• Three were the oval Mill bomb type, serrated, heavy iron with a spring level held down in position by a cotter pin with pulling rig attached. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• To judge by its European vestiges it was a rather small human type, generally with an oval face and a long head. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The form of the tubes is an oval, 17 feet in its longest diameter, and 12 feet in its shortest. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The tree is distinguished by the great thickness and sponginess of its bark, and by the leaves being evergreen, oblong, somewhat oval, downy underneath, and waved. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We both see the long hair, the lifted and foam-white arm, the oval mirror brilliant as a star. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Like a shimmering waterfall turned to burnished metal by a dying sun it fell about her oval face; in waving lines, below her waist it tumbled. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The bowl was perfectly oval in shape, while the end of the handle was notched or trifid. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A flame darted from the logs and she bent over the fire, stretching her thin hands so close to it that a faint halo shone about the oval nails. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Its shape is oval. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• For a moment, in the billowy darkness inside the big landau, he caught the dim oval of a face, eyes shining steadily--and she was gone. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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