curbstone meaning in English
n. 镶边石,栏石(=〔英国〕 kerbstone);〔pl.〕 〔美俚〕烟头,烟屁股。
2.adj. 场外(证券)交易的 (a curbstone broker [operator] 〔美国〕场外经纪人;非内行的 (a curbstone critic 门外汉批评家))。
Examples
- I stepped out musing, and almost walked over a vagabond who was eating his dinner on the curbstone .
我一边沉思,一边走出去,差点没踩在一个流浪汉身上,他正坐在街沿石上吃饭。 - Hereditary taste . he walked along the curbstone
他沿着人行道的边石走去。 - Bloom bloom trickleaps to the curbstone and halts again
在比弗街。 - Bald pat , bothered beetle , stands on the curbstone , folding his napkin , waiting to wait
他死死地盯着检修口。 - The tentacles . . . they passed from behind mr bloom along the curbstone
有两个人沿着便道的边石走,从背后赶到布卢姆先生前面去了。