Đá hoa, cẩm thạch

Hòn bi

a game of marbles

một ván bí

( marbles) trò chơi bi

( marbles) bộ sưu tập đồ vật bằng cẩm thạch

Giống như cẩm thạch

a marble heart

trái tim lạnh lùng, vô cảm

đá hoa

N. & v.

N.

Limestone in a metamorphic crystalline (orgranular) state, and capable of taking a polish, used insculpture and architecture.

(often attrib.) a anything madeof marble (a marble clock). b anything resembling marble inhardness, coldness, durability, etc. (her features were marble).3 a a small ball of marble, glass, clay, etc., used as a toy. b(in pl.; treated as sing.) a game using these.

(in pl.) sl.one's mental faculties (he's lost his marbles).

(in pl.) acollection of sculptures (Elgin Marbles).

V.tr.

(esp. asmarbled adj.) stain or colour (paper, the edges of a book, soap,etc.) to look like variegated marble.

(as marbled adj.) (ofmeat) streaked with alternating layers of lean and fat.

Marbly adj. [ME f. OF marbre, marble, f. L marmor f.Gk marmaros shining stone]