| 单词 | pebble |
| 释义 | pebble noun[C] uk/ˈpeb.əl/us/ˈpeb.əl/asmallsmoothroundstone,especiallyonefoundon abeachor in ariver: （尤指沙滩或河流中的）卵石，砾石Thispartof thecoasthas pebblebeaches.海岸的这一部分有几处砾石海滩。  Emmanuel Coupe/Photolibrary/GettyImages Geology - general words
pebble| American Dictionarypebble noun[C] us/ˈpeb·əl/asmallstone, madesmoothby theactionofwater Examplesofpebblepebble Using a 2 m stepladder, beach pebbles of varying shapes and mass, were dropped to a maximum of four metres. From theCambridge English Corpus This consists of coarse-grained sandstones with frequent pebbles or thin interbeds of smallpebbleconglomerates. From theCambridge English Corpus We should not of course conclude that all pebbles or points of the compass are indifferent ! From theCambridge English Corpus The pebbles cemented in guano, are in a swale about 10 m east of the 1911 hut porch. From theCambridge English Corpus Thepebbleis smaller than the associated depression, but this could be an effect of recent erosion. From theCambridge English Corpus To play the game, some number of counters, or pebbles as we shall call them, are distributed over the vertices of the grid. From theCambridge English Corpus Seed-eating animals probably wonder whether a particular speck on the ground is apebbleor a partly buried seed. From theCambridge English Corpus This would, of course, readily account for the good fit between thepebbleshape and the underlying sandstone. From theCambridge English Corpus The facies is generally reverse-graded with an imbricatedpebblelayer at its top. From theCambridge English Corpus There then follows another change in sediments with some breaks (including coarse sandstones with pebbles), which indicate strong activation of volcanicity. From theCambridge English Corpus It penetrates coarse sand more readily than fine, and fine sand than wood ash, and burrows easily in fine sand with pebbles. From theCambridge English Corpus Typically, most of the pebbles are coated by iron hydroxide. From theCambridge English Corpus We will then have compressed the pebbles to all lie on 1 and its neighbouring vertices. From theCambridge English Corpus Grits comprising 3 mm-sized rounded clasts and conglomerates with pebbles up to 5 cm in size are also present. From theCambridge English Corpus Embedded part of basaltpebble, east wall 'stores hut'. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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