These chestnuts are of bright reddish-brown. 这些栗子是鲜亮的红褐色。
Grab yourself a roast chestnut. 你自己拿一只烤栗子吧。
He gave as his excuse for being late that old chestnut about the train being delayed. 他用火车误点那样老掉牙的说法作为自己迟到的借口。
chestnut
[ noun ]
wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
<noun.plant>
any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
<noun.plant>
edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
<noun.food>
the brown color of chestnuts
<noun.attribute>
a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg
<noun.animal>
a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse
<noun.animal> [ adj ]
(of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color
<adj.all> a chestnut horse chestnut hair
Chestnut \Chest"nut\, n. [For chesten-nut; OE. chestein, chesten, chastein, chestnut, fr. AS. cisten in cistenbe['a]m chestnut tree, influenced by OF. chastaigne, F. ch[^a]taigne, both the AS. and the F. words coming from L. castanea a chestnut, Gr. ?, fr. ? a city of Pontus, where chestnut trees grew in abundance, and whence they were introduced into Europe. Cf. {Castanets}.] 1. (Bot.) The edible nut of a forest tree ({Castanea vesce}) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.
3. A bright brown color, like that of the nut.
4. The horse chestnut (often so used in England).
5. One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.
6. An old joke or story. [Slang]
{Chestnut tree}, a tree that bears chestnuts.
Chestnut \Chest"nut\, a. Of or pertaining of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.
colorful \colorful\ adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Three young men encountered during a stroll under the chestnut trees of Deribasovskaya Street say their city is safer now in the past, when their mothers and grandmothers were afraid to walk alone after dark.
Mr. Frank also interjects absurdist phrases such as, "I'm sitting in a cafe in Paris, revolted by the roots of a chestnut tree," a reference to the novel "Nausea" by the late French author Jean-Paul Sartre.
You'd think the crowd would be a little less caught up in the excitement, given the number of times the old chestnut has been on the boards.
More recently, local groups won victories as varied as closing an antibiotics factory in the Central Asian city of Frunze to saving historic chestnut trees in Odessa.
Koch said Secretariat's condition rapidly worsened on Tuesday and put the chestnut stallion in extreme pain for the first time.
Italian olive oils and balsamic vinegar, amaretti biscuits, and a range of stoneground flours including pasta and chestnut flours.
At Colchester Zoo in England visitors were asked to bring leaves to feed its two baby elephants, Tania and Zola, because normal feed supplies of willow, sweet chestnut, poplar and oak leaves had been destroyed in the drought.
Plum and chestnut trees sway in late September under the weight of late-summer produce. I was lured to Thal by reports of a strange and beautiful church.
Probably one dinner out and an after-dinner visit to a local sagra or festival, such as Marradi's sagra of the chestnut.
The guitar riff from the Doobies' chestnut "China Grove" kicks off "The Doctor"; the riff that opens the oldie "Listen to the Music" begins "Need a Little Taste of Love."
John Gordon rode a stocky chestnut horse in front of a column of rebel soldiers marching four abreast between Union troops with shouldered arms.
They include chestnut soup, stuffed acorn squash and tofu loaf.
Viktor's wife Ludmilla helped him sail it to Plymouth. Inside Laguna the chestnut planking, fastened with copper rivets, glistens in the light from an oil lamp.
Typical is the familiar chestnut about how Queen Christina invited Rene Descartes to her court and then insisted that he instruct her in philosophy at five in the morning.
People here praise Mr. Kwan for building new bridges, paving roads and creating jobs through new industries ranging from raising silkworms to growing chestnut trees.