Straw

(noun.) a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth.

(noun.) plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder.

(verb.) cover or provide with or as if with straw; 'cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm'.

(adj.) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored .

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• They rested on some straw in a loft until the middle of the night, and then rode forward again when all the town was asleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Might I ask you, Watson, to open that window, and then to put a match to the edge of the straw? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He had a broad straw hat on, with a violet-coloured ribbon round it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• When he lay down on his straw bed, he thought he had done with this world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Mrs. Murray made it, and it's sure to be right; it may be a straw's breadth shorter or longer-waisted, according to my having grown fat or thin. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• At moments it seemed to him he did not care a straw whether Ursula or Hermione or anybody else existed or did not exiSt. Why bother! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Hay and straw were stored in that portion of the place, fagots for firing, and a heap of apples in sand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Now, what do I make with my straw? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Who can care a straw, really, how the old patched-up Constitution is tinkered at any more? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Stiff, coarse straw will not answer unless packed very solid; finer and softer, as of thickly sown oats, is better, and the walls which it forms need not be quite so thick. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Moreover, only the heads of the grain are cut, the straw being left standing. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• What do I make with my straw? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And the other women--my best friends--well, they use me or abuse me; but they don't care a straw what happens to me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They grow on this road, Meg, so do combs and brown straw hats. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I don't think it signifies two straws about the 'Pioneer,' or Ladislaw, or Brooke's speechifying to the Middlemarchers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I don't care two straws about your 'no harm is intended,' and you may be certain if there is any trouble it will be for you, not for me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But straws show . 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her--who could about such a nasty little freckled thing? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• It might be her interest if she cared two straws about me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Straws show which way the wind blows, and I've made several discoveries today. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Such men as this are feathers, chips, and straws. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Well, my dear Sir, we won't waste time in splitting straws,' resumed the little man, 'say--say--seventy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• But Miss Bertram does not care three straws for him; _that_ is your opinion of your intimate friend. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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