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单词 Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
释义

Charlie Brown's Christmas tree

English

Etymology

A sad-looking Charlie Brown Christmas tree

See Charlie Brown tree.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtʃɑːli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹiː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtʃɑɹli bɹaʊns ˈkɹɪsməs tɹi/
  • Hyphenation: Char‧lie Brown's Christ‧mas tree

Noun

Charlie Brown's Christmas tree (plural Charlie Brown's Christmas trees)

  1. Synonym of Charlie Brown tree.
    • 2002, Wendell J. Powell I, “’Twas the Nite before Christmas – 1997”, in 12 Spiritual Voices, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 23:
      Oh yes, 'twas the night before Christmas, / and it was a horrible site to see. / Things were looking sadder than Charlie Brown's / Christmas tree. / But hark! There was hope, and all was not lost.
    • 2009, Steven L. Layne, “Acknowledgments”, in Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers, Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, pages xv–xvi:
      When Rick laughs near me, the ground quakes because he is a California redwood, and I am Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Now that I have won, he will not laugh. He will instead quietly pay for a very expensive dinner in a restaurant with no prices on the menu … and I will laugh. Though the story of the bet is true, beyond that has been Rick's earnest encouragement for me to move this book forward.
    • 2017, Marilyn Peake, chapter 14, in Blood and Ashes: A Paranormal Romance Novel, [s.n.]: Marilyn Peake:
      Walking around the dwarfed trees with bare spots throughout their branches, I commented that they reminded me of Charlie Brown's Christmas trees.

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