cask

英 [kɑːsk]

美 [kæsk]

n.  小木桶; 酒桶; 一桶(的量)

复数：casks　

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BNC.16695 / COCA.20493

牛津词典

noun

• 小木桶；酒桶；一桶（的量）
  a small wooden barrel used for storing liquids, especially alcoholic drinks; the amount contained in a cask
  1. a wine cask/a cask of wine
     酒桶；一桶酒

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 木桶;(尤指)酒桶
  Acaskis a wooden barrel that is used for storing things, especially alcoholic drink.
  1. ...casks of sherry.
     一桶桶雪利酒

英英释义

noun

• a cylindrical container that holds liquids
  Synonym:barrel
• the quantity a cask will hold
  Synonym:caskful

双语例句

• He asked the waiter to bring him a cask of sherry.
  他叫侍者给他拿一桶雪利酒。
• So that I had near sixty pound of very good powder in the center of the cask, and this was an agreeable discovery to me at that time;
  我从桶里弄到了差不多六十磅好火药，这真是一个可喜的收获。
• He ushered me through the back door, past neat stacks of hand-split applewood, to a wooden tank, like a giant wine cask cut in half, covered in moss and dripping water through its swollen slats.
  他带我穿过后门，经过整齐的手劈苹果木柴堆，来到一个木制水池前。水池像一劈两半的大葡萄桶，布满苔藓，膨胀的木板条间滴着水，池边围着铁丝网。
• A fixture for drawing water from a pipe or cask.
  为了从管道或桶中取水的固定装置。
• To draw off ( a liquid) by piercing a hole in a cask or other container.
  钻孔汲取通过在桶或其它容器上钻孔来汲取（液体）
• And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask, and began to fill a pipe.
  说着，他就坐到了白兰地酒桶上，开始装烟斗。
• A large cask ( especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons).
  大的桶（尤其容量相当于大桶或加仑）。
• Tartar forms on the inside of a cask in which wine is fermented.
  酒石形成于酒的发酵桶的内侧。
• Wood of the brandy cask smelt of alcohol.
  白兰地酒桶的木头闻起来有酒味。
• A worker puts both legs into the cask to wash in the steel market.
  我既是看门人、计、练，也是维修工和跑腿的。钢材市场内一位工人把双腿放入水桶内清洗。