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N-MASS
蠟
Wax is a solid, slightly shiny substance made of fat or oil which is used to make candles and polish. It melts when it is heated.
例句
There were coloured candles which had spread pools of wax on the furniture...
彩色蠟燭在家具上留下一攤攤蠟油。
She loved the scent in the house of wax polish.
她喜歡房子里打過蠟的味道。
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VERB
給…上蠟
If you wax a surface, you put a thin layer of wax onto it, especially in order to polish it.
例句
We'd have long talks while she helped me wax the floor.
她幫我給地板打蠟時我們談了很久。
...all those Sundays spent washing and waxing the car.
那些用來洗車和給車上蠟的星期天
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VERB
用蠟給（皮膚）除毛
If you have your legs waxed, you have the hair removed from your legs by having wax put on them and then pulled off quickly.
例句
She has just had her legs waxed at the local beauty parlour...
她剛在當地一家美容院除了腿毛。
She could go shopping, and wax her legs.
她可以去逛商店，順便除一下腿毛。
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N-UNCOUNT
耳垢;耳屎
Wax is the sticky yellow substance found in your ears.
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VERB
暢談
If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
例句
He waxed lyrical about the skills and commitment of his employees...
他津津樂道于員工的技能和敬業精神。
My mother waxed eloquent on the theme of wifely duty.
我母親大談為妻之道。
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PHRASE
興衰;盛衰
If something waxes and wanes, it first increases and then decreases over a period of time.
例句
Portugal and Spain had possessed vast empires that waxed and waned.
葡萄牙和西班牙都曾是經歷了興衰的大帝國。