Broom

(noun.) a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.

(noun.) any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers.

(verb.) finish with a broom.

安东尼编辑

• Father told me it was called broom. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Useful and extensive as is its use, the broom does not compare in variety and wide application to the _brush_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I took away the broom as gently and as kindly as I could. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Jo thrusts the handle of his broom between the bars of the gate, and with his utmost power of elaboration, points it out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Then a shuttle, also carrying a stout thread, was thrown over the cord, the needle receded and was then forced through the broom again _under_ the binding cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Possibly they were somewhat disillusioned about the present instruments of the taboo; perhaps they imagined that a new broom would sweep clean. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the present instance this broom was manufactured out of the tough fibres of Moore's own stubborn purpose, bound tight with his will. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And anxious thoughts may be swept away, As we bravely wield a broom. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Then followed different forms of broom-sewing machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Then when the broom-sewing machines and other inventions got fairly to work, nine men would turn out twelve hundred dozen brooms per week. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• As each stitch was formed the machine fed the broom along laterally and intermittently. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Jo nodded and laughed, and flourished her broom as she called out. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I could unkiver it for you with my broom if the gate was open. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At one time seventeen skilled workmen would manufacture five hundred dozen brooms per week. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Then when the broom-sewing machines and other inventions got fairly to work, nine men would turn out twelve hundred dozen brooms per week. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is only by such machines which treat the entire article from the first to the last step, that the immense number of brooms now necessary to supply the market are made. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The fronds are wrought into baskets, brooms, mats, sacks and many other useful articles; and the trunks are made into boats, and furnish timber for the construction of houses. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The men standing on both sides of the rollers have only to wipe off the plates with brooms and occasionally turn the plates. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• We don't mean to say much about them yet, because we are such very new brooms, but we don't intend to be idle. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• All members to appear in uniform and shoulder their brooms at nine precisely. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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