pearl

英 [pɜːl]

美 [pɜːrl]

n. 珍珠; 人造珍珠; (形状或颜色)像珍珠之物

复数：pearls　现在分词：pearling　过去式：pearled　第三人称单数：pearls　过去分词：pearled　

Collins.2 / BNC.6574 / COCA.45772

习惯用语

cast, throw, etc. pearls before swine

明珠暗投；对牛弹琴
to give or offer valuable things to people who do not understand their value

a pearl of wisdom

noun

珍珠
a small hard shiny white ball that forms inside the shell of an oyster and is of great value as a jewel
1. a string of pearls
  一挂珍珠
2. a pearl necklace
  珍珠项链
3. She was wearing her pearls (= a necklace of pearls ) .
  她戴着她的珍珠项链。
人造珍珠
a copy of a pearl that is made artificially
1. pearl buttons
  珍珠母纽扣
人造珍珠
a copy of a pearl that is made artificially
1. pearl buttons
  珍珠母纽扣
（形状或颜色）像珍珠之物
a thing that looks like a pearl in shape or colour
1. pearls of dew on the grass
  草上的露珠
极有价值的东西
a thing that is very highly valued
1. She is a pearl among women.
  她是红颜俊杰。

See also:She wore a string of pearls at her throat...I put on the pearl earrings Daddy had bought me.mother-of-pearl
ADJ 珍珠般的
Pearlis used to describe something which looks like a pearl.
1. ...tiny pearl buttons.
  珍珠般的小纽扣
PHRASE 明珠暗投；对牛弹琴
If you say that someoneis casting pearls before swine, you mean that they are wasting their time by offering something that is helpful or valuable to someone who does not appreciate or understand it.
1. You do not value what should be valued, I see I was casting pearls before swine.
  你不重视应该重视的东西，我觉得我是在对牛弹琴。
PHRASE 精辟见解，睿智言论，妙语如珠（常指开玩笑的话）
People describe what someone says aspearls of wisdomto suggest that it is wise or helpful, often when they are joking.
1. And what is that pearl of wisdom supposed to mean?...
  那番精辟见解到底是什么意思呢？
2. Her advice includes perfectly true but rather fulsome pearls of wisdom.
  她的建议中有完全正确的金玉良言，但有过于恭维之嫌。

noun

a shade of white the color of bleached bones
Synonym:boneivoryoff-white
a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster
a shape that is spherical and small
1. he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops
2. beads of sweat on his forehead
Synonym:dropbead

verb

He said that he had bought the Pearl for his mother.
他说他为他母亲买了那颗珍珠。
The pearl and pebble necklaces are a peculiarity of the peninsula.
珍珠和卵石项链是半岛的一个特色。
She wears a pearl necklace today.
今天她戴了一条珍珠项链。
There was something about Pearl that mesmerised her.
珀尔身上有什么东西吸引住了她。
He bought his girlfriend a Pearl necklace.
他给他女朋友买了一条珍珠项链。
I pretend you go to Oriental Pearl Tower and the Bund, where you can make revenue River scenery.
我假意你去东方明珠和外滩，在那里你可以尽收浦江的景色。
The special geographic location of the Pearl River levee passing through Guangzhou city and its present situation are described;
介绍了珠江堤防特殊的地理位置和现状；
The readings you heard earlier were excerpted from a new oral history of Pearl Harbor.
你之前听到的朗读片段节选自一部新的珍珠港口述史。
Development of environmental decision support system for tidal river networks and its application to the Pearl River Delta;
对珠江三角洲潮汐河网水环境数学模型研究进行了系统的总结。
It is I, and my little Pearl.
是我，还有我的小珠儿。