Turquoise

(noun.) a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate; 'blue turquoise is valued as a gemstone'.

校对:菲利斯

• The Pharaohs of the 1st Dynasty were already working the copper and turquoise mines in the peninsula of Sinai. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She gave that funny guard to keep the turquoise on, as it's too big. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It had a flight of storks streaming through a turquoise sky of light, over a dark earth. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The turquoise, a phosphate of aluminum colored with copper, is not synthetically produced, although various experiments with its manufacture have been made. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Sandwiched between the earth and the turquoise sky, the Atlantic lay gleaming like a huge silver wafer in the sunlight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

编辑:梅齐