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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- bowls [bəulz]
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1.
noun
[BRIT]
[u]
(game) 地滚球戏[美 = lawn bowling]
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1.
noun
[BRIT]
[u]
(game) 地滚球戏[美 = lawn bowling]
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- bowls [bəυlz]
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1.
n
[functioning as singular]
a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
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2.
n
(as modifier)
- a bowls tournament
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3.
n
skittles or tenpin bowling
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1.
n
[functioning as singular]
a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
Examples
- Put the bowls in the sink, and I'll wash them later.
- 把碗放到水槽里，我过后洗。 → bowls
- a bowls tournament → bowls
- top up the sugar in those bowls → top up
- 那姑娘摆过茶摊，卖过大碗茶。
- That girl once set up a roadside stall and sold big bowls of tea to passersby. → 茶摊
- 碟子碗碰得丁丁当当的。
- The dishes and bowls slid together with a clatter. → 丁当
- 一摞碗
- a pile of bowls → 摞
- 他吃了满满当当三碗饭。
- He ate three full bowls of rice. → 满满当当
- 冲两碗藕粉
- prepare two bowls of lotus root paste → 藕粉
- 收拾碗筷
- clear away the bowls and chopsticks; clear the table → 收拾
- 喝了两大碗粥，落了个水饱儿。
- I gulped down two big bowls of porridge and felt terribly bloated. → 水饱儿
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