magnum
发音
How to pronounce magnum in British English:
英 [ˈmægnəm]
How to pronounce magnum in American English:
美 [ˈmæɡnəm]
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- Noun:
- a large wine bottle for liquor or wine
单词词源
- magnum (n.)
- 1788, "bottle containing two quarts of wine or spirits," from Latin magnum, neuter of magnus "great in size" (see magnate). Registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts, as the name of a powerful type of handgun.
双语例句
- 1. Hungry monkeys : you could simply give the macaque your magnum .
- 2. Words worth addressed his magnum opus to his " dear friend " coleridge .
- 3. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus , you are solving the wrong problem .
- 4. His ambition carried over into academia where he graduated magnum cum laude from harvard law school .
- 5. They had a magnum ? They drink the whole thing ?