Poke

(noun.) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous.

(verb.) make a hole by poking.

(verb.) stir by poking; 'poke the embers in the fireplace'.

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• She wanted to poke a hole into them both. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The blooming Judy, without removing her gaze from the fire, gives her grandfather one ghostly poke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Fire's welly out,' said he, giving it a vigorous poke, as if to turn attention away from himself. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Fortunately his elder sister perceives the cause of the agitation in Mrs. Bagnet's breast and with an admonitory poke recalls him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• What's a scratch here and a scrape there, a poke in this place and a dig in the other, to them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The trooper raising his head, she makes another poke at her esteemed grandfather, and having thus brought them together, stares rigidly at the fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Perker gave the fire another very unnecessary poke, and said, 'I am afraid so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The Lord and Master, Pilar said and poked a piece of wood into the fire. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Amy poked the fire and said nothing. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And Laurie poked the fire to hide a little twitching of the lips that he could not control. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• With this, Fagin poked Mr. Claypole in the side, and they joined in a burst of laughter both long and loud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I wish you had been poked into cells and black holes, and run over by rats and spiders and beetles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And Mr. Grimwig poked the fire with a flourish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I poked it out, and it ran under the bookcase. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• No more than I expected, if you are allowed to go poking about among poor folks. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• While we were still poking about among the chairs and tables, the door of the bed-room was suddenly opened. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Don't you be afraid of that,' said Silas, poking his head at him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I don't take no pride out on it, Sammy,' replied Mr. Weller, poking the fire vehemently, 'it's a horrid sitiwation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Was he poking fun, or not? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I am sick of all this poking and prying. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Herbert said from behind (again poking me), Massive and concrete. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Two peculiarly blunt knocks or pokes at the door, as if the dead man arriving on his back were striking at it with the soles of his motionless feet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Then Judy pokes Mr. Smallweed once, and Mr. Smallweed pokes Judy once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He goes up to a house, rings the area bell, pokes a packet of medicine without a direction into the servant's hand, and walks off. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• And stealthily rubbed her little hands behind him, and poked a few exultant pokes with her two forefingers over the crown of his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In vain Amy telegraphed the word 'talk', tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• To which Mrs. Bagnet responds with two pokes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I'm sure I'm always expecting to hear of her having met with something horrible among all those wretched places she pokes herself into. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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