Toy

(noun.) a device regarded as providing amusement; 'private airplanes are a rich man's toy'.

(noun.) a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier); 'a toy stove'.

(verb.) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; 'She played nervously with her wedding ring'; 'Don't fiddle with the screws'; 'He played with the idea of running for the Senate'.

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• Then Becquerel was next visited, but he was nearly blind and could see nothing in the new optical toy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was, that Dora seemed by one consent to be regarded like a pretty toy or plaything. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In fact, it has become the familiar scientific toy of man, woman, and child, interesting, instructive, and useful to all. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Human beings have desires that are far more important than the tools and toys and churches they make to satisfy them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Hence it will be obvious that these toys produced merely an ILLUSION of THEORETICAL motion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Rawdon bought the boy plenty of picture-books and crammed his nursery with toys. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• His toys had been soldiers and guns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children's toys are kept in. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• As to constructing toys for the Minders, out of nothing, he had done that daily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On this occasion they wandered to the album, and toyed absently about the margin of the little water-colour drawing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, said Waldemar, who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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