Toothpick

(noun.) pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth.

整理:斯特拉

• There was another old woman watching by the bed; the parish apothecary's apprentice was standing by the fire, making a toothpick out of a quill. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised,' said the apothecary's apprentice, intent upon the toothpick's point. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Her knitting was before her, but she had laid it down to pick her teeth with a toothpick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In one of these excursive glances she perceived among a group of young men, the very he, who had given them a lecture on toothpick-cases at Gray's. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• To cleanse use well-made brushes, soft quill, or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic tooth wash, and precipitated chalk. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.

录入:莫伊拉