rock crystal

英语

Rock crystal in its natural state

A rock crystal vessel (Greek, 4th-3rd century BCE)

名词

rock crystal (可数 和 不可数，复数 rock crystals)

1. 水晶
   • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, London: Henry Herringman, Chapter 1, p. 114,^[1]

     […] I have for Trials sake taken Lumps of Rock Crystal, and Heating them Red hot in a Crucible, I found according to my Expectation, that being Quench’d in Fair water, even those that remain’d in seemingly entire Lumps, exchang’d their Translucency for Whiteness […]

   • 1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Part of Italy, London: J. Tonson, pp. 22-23,^[2]

     […] I saw his Body, in Episcopal Robes, lying upon the Altar in a Shrine of Rock-Crystal.

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 24,^[3]

     […] there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.

   • 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 5, p. 131,^[4]

     I wondered whether I ought to speak to Brideshead, but that grim, rock-crystal mask forbade all confidence.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, London: Fourth Estate, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 296,^[5]

     At New Year he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal.

来源

• Quartz在英语维基百科上的资料。维基百科 ^en