bauble

名词 n.
中文释义
英 [ˈbɔːbəɫ]    美 /ˈbɔbəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
    — […] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.
  2. Anything trivial and worthless. broadly,figuratively
    — His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter.
  3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
  4. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

词形变化

baubles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
baublery

词源

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).
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