tortoise-shell

基本解释

Now I have some new large tortoise-shell glasses and keep encountering people with the same glasses.
现在我有一些新的玳瑁酒杯，我一直会遇到一些有相同杯子的人。
Celluloid had been commercially available for decades as a substitute for tortoise-shell, horn, bone and other materials.
几十年来，赛璐璐一直在商业上充当龟甲、角、骨和其他材料的代用品。
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"Look at this, then, " said the woman; "you shall have it for your own if you like, " and she held up before the child's eyes the bright tortoise-shell comb which she had poisoned.
“看看这个，那么”这个女人说：“你应该拥有这个如果你喜欢的话，”她举到这个孩子的眼前这个闪亮的玳瑁梳子，那个她已经下了毒的。

Built by Mitsubishi Electric, it boasts a 59-foot-diameter, turtle-shell-shape antenna dubbed "Gamela, " after the Godzilla-slaying tortoise.
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Tortoiseshell is the hard shell of a kind of sea turtle. It is brown and yellow in colour and is often polished and used to make jewellery and ornaments.
Tortoiseshell means made of tortoiseshell or made of a material which resembles tortoiseshell.