| 单词 | rubber plant |
| 例句 | He moved to a back corner, beneath what looked like a kind of rubber plant, and pointed out a birdcage, which I hadn’t seen before. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I have named this one Torontodalisque: Homage to Ingres, because of the pose, and the rubber plant like a fan behind her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We ridicule their piety, their small economies, the size of their feet, their rubber plant, which sums them up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And next to it is a floor lamp, a long black pole with three oval spotlights attached like the broad leaves of a rubber plant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The rubber plant will be on the landing, not much bigger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Smeath in metamorphosis, from frame to frame, naked, exposed and desecrated, along with the maroon velvet chesterfield, the sacred rubber plant, the angels of God. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine what it would be like if I were Ee Gee, the famous editor, in an office full of potted rubber plants and African violets my secretary had to water each morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The afghan is draped across her thighs, the rubber plant rises behind her like a fan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They are potted succulents, prickly desert cactuses and rainforest rubber plants. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The rugged rubber plant does well in dim lighting, prefers humid conditions, and is resistant to pests and diseases. These five plants don’t just look good — they improve your health, too 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z We learn about goldfish and a rubber plant. Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z Beyond the reception area was a courtyard filled with rubber plants and ferns, totally silent but for the pleasant fountain in the middle. Personal Journeys: Two Tales of Recovery in the Canary Islands 2013-07-19T16:38:43Z From the 1890s to the 1910s, steelworks, shipyards, rubber plants, and factories producing canned food, machine tools, chemicals, cement, and automobiles were established north of Rome. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z However, he licensed companies that brutally exploited Africans by forcing them to collect sap from rubber plants. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A federal judge has approved a settlement under which a synthetic rubber plant will pay $3.3 million in fines and $650,000 for improved air monitoring in several southwest Louisiana locations, officials said Tuesday. Judge OKs synthetic rubber plant’s pollution settlement 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Akron lost its mojo when the rubber plants closed, but is still home to a lucrative polymers industry, as well as Devo, the All-American Soap Box Derby, the Black Keys and the Goodyear blimp. Column: I promise, this is the real story of how LeBron James is saving Akron 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z This fake rubber plant is 25 inches tall. The best, most realistic-looking fake plants for decorating your home 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Available in a variety of plants and sizes: a set of small cactuses, a medium snake plant, a large rubber plant, philodendron and cactus. The local’s guide to the best made-in-L.A. gifts 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Manzil Murshid, who filed a petition with the court seeking its intervention, said the factories are mainly small dyeing, tanning and rubber plants operating without approval from the Department of Environment. Bangladesh court orders 231 factories closed to save river 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The primary cause of this elevated risk is emissions from a synthetic rubber plant, the Pontchartrain Works facility, operated by the Japanese chemicals giant Denka. 'Evil economics': William Barber condemns proposed plastics facility in Cancer Alley 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z For example, during an April 2016 inspection at a Firestone rubber plant in Sulphur, La., E.P.A. inspectors discovered that the plant was emitting illegal levels of butadiene, a carcinogen, into the community. Shutdown Means E.P.A. Pollution Inspectors Aren’t on the Job 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z When he stumbled into Rolling Greens nursery, he bought a low-maintenance rubber plant, or Ficus elastica. They don’t own homes. They don’t have kids. Why millennials are plant addicts 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z When he stumbled into Rolling Greens nursery, he bought a low maintenance rubber plant, or Ficus elastica. They don’t own homes. They don't have kids. Why millennials are plant addicts 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Poinsettias belong to the same botanical family as rubber plants that produce latex, so some skin rashes occur in people allergic to latex. Science Says: Are poinsettias poisonous? Some holiday truths 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Poinsettias belong to the same botanical family as rubber plants that produce latex, so some skin rashes occur in people allergic to latex. Science Says: Are poinsettias poisonous? Some holiday truths 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Shell Oil Co. will spend $55 million to clean contaminated soil at a former rubber plant in the South Bay of Los Angeles County under an agreement with the federal government that was announced Wednesday. Shell to spend $55 million to clean soil at old South Bay rubber plant 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z On one bizarre occasion, she found herself dependent upon an old man who ran a rubber plant. She used absurd means to save herself in the absurd times of Nazi Germany 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z A black and white portrait of Burroughs in hat and dark glasses stares blankly back above a rubber plant. How Morocco was once a haven for gay Westerners 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z DRONES: The House and Senate agreed to prohibit drones from flying over petroleum and alumina refineries, chemical and rubber plants and nuclear power plants. What passed and failed in the legislative session 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Number 94 maintained its rubber plant on console-table in dark vestibule. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z When small these magnolia trees are as conventional as the rubber plants in hotel lobbies, whose foliage resembles theirs. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z "Nothing of the kind is complete without rubber plants," Everett replied seriously. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z She remarked: 'I have never seen such large rubber plants.' Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z I witnessed a stirring performance of Siegfried, the Child of the Forest, where the illusion of the deep-forest glades was created by three rubber plants, a potted palm, and a sword-fern in a jardinière! Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The palms, azaleas, and rubber plants may be sponged occasionally to keep them clean and healthy. Guide to Hotel Housekeeping 2011-01-27T03:00:39.557Z Clip off a twig of your leathery-leaved rubber plant and note the sticky white sap that exudes. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z South Asian community A large arson fire that destroyed an important rubber plant in 1975 added significantly to the town's hardship. Living among us 2010-05-06T02:31:00Z Substantial numbers of women were also employed in chemical and rubber plants, in logging and woodworking, and in the production of leather shoes and furs. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Mrs. Morrison was washing the glossy leaves of the rubber plant. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge "The habits of the rubber plant are common property; and every man in every street thinks his roses have it all over the man's next door." Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Smooth as a beech in bark, crowned with glossy, beautiful foliage, like the rubber plants, this parasitic fig is a splendid tropical tree, but the host that supports all this luxuriance is sacrificed utterly. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The soil and climate along the route are well suited to the cultivation of rubber trees, and considerable areas have recently been cleared of the dense jungle growth and set to young rubber plants. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions "I am old-fashioned enough not to care for palms or rubber plants." A Man of Two Countries At the far side of the room, near a dusty rubber plant, sat the fat man, studying a menu. It Could Be Anything My rubber plant for your victrola, each offering what he has and seeking his deficiency. Chimney-Pot Papers The rubber plant, popular in this country as a pot and tub plant, is one of the best-known species. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z “And as you often say you can’t Take care of ’em for me, Why don’t you buy a rubber plant, And an umbrella tree?” The Jingle Book South American rubber plant, from which a great portion of the caoutchouc of commerce is obtained. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture “Then would you mind carrying, also, this little rubber plant over to her?” asked Mrs. Littletail. Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters Yet here it is, with a rubber plant in one corner and a trellis for imaginary vines in the other. Chimney-Pot Papers There are shining brass knobs and bell-pulls; rubber plants on the sills, or perhaps a small bowl of goldfish with a white china swan floating. Pipefuls The rubber plant was rubb'ring round In a manner most absurd: The long green corn prickled up her ears And this is what she heard: "Wot's tomato wid you, you beat?" The New Pun Book Some of the plants ordinarily grown in the house, such as Rex begonias, rubber plants, sword ferns, are best increased by leaf cuttings, topping, layering or other methods differing from seed sowing or rooting cuttings. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse And Mrs. Wibblewobble didn’t at all mind some of the leaves being off her rubber plant. Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters Professor Collins: It was on the rubber plant. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 “Ah, thank you,” he bowed a second time, and then added out of the desperate need of saying something, “There’s a cedar of Lebanon in it and an India rubber plant from South America.” Jerry Junior On these occasions the floral decorations were remarkably elegant, and there was a profusion of palms, India rubber plants, roses, azalias, tulips, hyacinths, and growing orchids. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Aspidistra, araucaria, Pandanus and the rubber plant are exceptions; two of them being remarkable for their hardihood under neglect and ignorance. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse "Must have seen a rubber plant up that way," Mr. Burton said, rather disagreeably for him. More Tish The rubber plants, perhaps, would lend themselves more readily to such a procedure than the hickories, because most of the rubber plants are air plants, anyway. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 "I guess he thought he wasn't going to have any home at all when he saw you two in there with the rubber plant." Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's For though Mrs. Brown did have an umbrella plant, and a rubber plant also, Sue's doll was not under either one. Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show Many people who grow house plants have trouble in keeping them well clothed with leaves, for instance, the geranium and the rubber plant. The First Book of Farming The forest here is full of rubber plants, nearly every vine and leaf, when broken, yielding the milky sap which dries, or can be coagulated, into rubber. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State And then, just as the taxi was moving on, over the doorman's shoulder Johnny distinctly saw Bland turn in between the rubber plants that guarded the doorway. The Thunder Bird Palms and rubber plants grow in pots on the little curved path leading up to the tomb; above it is an uncombed hillside and trees flickering in the air. Mince Pie "Why didn't you give some one a rubber plant?" was the next question from Miriam. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. "Judas H. Priest!" he roared at the rubber plant. By Advice of Counsel Bushes which yield acid, suitable for coagulating the milk of the rubber plant, grow alongside. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State Each table proclaimed the aesthetic level of the second class through the lifeless leaves of a rubber plant and two imitation cut-glass dishes of tough fruit. The Nest Builder There was a pleasant litter of books and magazines, and a work basket on the table, and in the bay window an ugly but cheerful green rubber plant in a tub. Great Possessions I suppose you see that if one could get that nice-looking top off and start again the old rubber plant would be all right. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. "Good morning, Mr. Tutt," muttered the Honorable Peckham from behind the imitation rubber plant in his office, where he was engaged in surreptitiously consuming an apple. By Advice of Counsel He had scarce taken hold as Governor in 1913 when a strike broke out in the great rubber plants of Akron. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox From the milky juice alone one might guess the spurge to be related to the rubber plant. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors They sing "Home, Sweet Home" in ragtime; they carry their lares et penates in a bandbox; their vine is entwined about a picture hat; a rubber plant is their fig tree. The Four Million A rubber plant may be layered or topped as it is called. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. I never knew anybody to cry that way over a rubber plant before. Waifs and Strays Part 1 On passing the bend in the lake they noticed that the banks were slightly higher, while palms, pine-trees, and rubber plants succeeded the ferns. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future Here and there a pale rubber plant peeped from the miscellaneous mass, as if wondering to what kingdom it belonged—vegetable, animal or artificial. Whirligigs There was a rubber plant in one window; a flea-bitten terrier sat in the other, wondering when he was to have his day. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million And behold you have a little rubber plant just as good as new, I have told this before to the girls. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. What the—well, wasn't that tough on a genuine little old New York rubber plant? Waifs and Strays Part 1 I trapped him behind large palms and rubber plants, though he did not know he was trapped. The Iron Heel A rubber plant, then as now the mark of the city and suburban dweller, sent aloft its spare, shiny leaves alongside a closed square piano. The Riverman The seeds of love had been well sown, and had grown up, hardy and vigorous, into a—let us call it a rubber plant. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million What the shamrock is to Ireland the rubber plant is to the dweller in flats and furnished rooms. Waifs and Strays Part 1 We rubber plants form the connecting link between the vegetable kingdom and the decorations of a Waldorf-Astoria scene in a Third Avenue theatre. Waifs and Strays Part 1 You know the proverb: "Where the rubber plant sits in the window the moving van draws up to the door." Waifs and Strays Part 1 Talk about the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden—say! suppose there had been a rubber plant there when Eve—but I was going to tell you a story. Waifs and Strays Part 1 Think of this little cornucopia of wonders, all for $1.89: Henry James's works, six talking machine records, one pair of tennis shoes, two bottles of horse radish, and a rubber plant—that was me! Waifs and Strays Part 1 A rubber plant likes to see a little sport now and then. Waifs and Strays Part 1 You take a white bulldog with a Bourke Cockran air of independence about him and a rubber plant and there you have the fauna and flora of a flat. Waifs and Strays Part 1 Both of them stand under a rubber plant! Waifs and Strays Part 1 |
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