Chalk

(noun.) a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces.

(noun.) a pure flat white with little reflectance.

(noun.) a soft whitish calcite.

(verb.) write, draw, or trace with chalk.

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• It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The principal productions of these towns,' says Mr. Pickwick, 'appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• To cleanse use well-made brushes, soft quill, or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic tooth wash, and precipitated chalk. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Diametrically opposite to the chalk mark a small hole is punched into the ball to indicate the weightiest point. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The chalk was rotated by hand. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They had been drawn in chalk upon the black wooden door of the tool-house, which stands beside the lawn in full view of the front windows. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• No, sir, says Johnny, and then under his breath to placate God's penchant for truth, I threw the chalk-eraser. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There's the likeness of a man being hung, and smoking the while, chalked outside the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Is it chalked upon the walls and cried in the streets? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But do you not see, that, under the idea of exalting me, he is chalking out a new path for himself; a path of action from which he has long wandered? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Always running about and screeching, always playing and fighting, always skip-skip-skipping on the pavement and chalking it for their games! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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