Pierce

(noun.) 14th President of the United States (1804-1869).

(verb.) make a hole into; 'The needle pierced her flesh'.

(verb.) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument.

(verb.) cut or make a way through; 'the knife cut through the flesh'; 'The path pierced the jungle'; 'Light pierced through the forest'.

(verb.) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply; 'The cold pierced her bones'; 'Her words pierced the students'.

(verb.) sound sharply or shrilly; 'The scream pierced the night'.

校对:维多利亚

• And the twilight, as she now sought to pierce it, was gradually lighted by a faint spark of reassurance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Does not this pierce your grandfather's territory? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• What was wanted was a missile to pierce a thick hide. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Mrs. Sparsit, from her place at the backgammon board, was constantly straining her eyes to pierce the shadows without. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• You pierce my heart, child! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• General Franklin Pierce had joined the army in Mexico, at Puebla, a short time before the advance upon the capital commenced. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The view from the summit would have been superb but for the fact that the sun could only pierce the mists at long intervals. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Gudrun gave a little cry of excitement, as if pierced with delight. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Gentlemen, I have heard my uncle say, that Tom Smart said the widow's lamentations when she heard the disclosure would have pierced a heart of stone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Have you ever observed that his ears are pierced for earrings? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• One Norwegian long defended it by his single arm, and was at length pierced with a spear thrust through the planks of the bridge from a boat beneath. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She had a real, happy, glad, good-natured look; but she had een that pierced a body through. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The very thought of such a possibility, so pierced my heart that it made me cry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As my sword went up to end her horrid career her paralysis left her, and with an ear-piercing shriek she turned to flee. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It flew true as an arrow and piercing the poor devil's heart laid him dead upon the arena. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• One piercing scream escaped her lips as the brute hand clutched her arm. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• With piercing eagerness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Little Dorrit, with a piercing cry, held her back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr. Chadband, leaning forward over the table, pierces what he has got to follow directly into Mr. Snagsby with the thumb-nail already mentioned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• No such inspired creation is at unity with itself, any more than the clouds of heaven when the sun pierces through them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The needle gun has in the place of the swinging hammer a rectilinearly sliding bolt, carrying in front a needle which pierces the charge and ignites the fulminate by its friction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Heaven's light, following her exile, pierces its confinesand discloses their forlorn remoteness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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