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Pop·si·cle AHD[pŏpʹsĭ-kəl, -sĭk'əl] D.J.[ˈpɒpsɪkəl, -ˌsɪkəl]K.K.[ˈpɑpsɪkəl, -ˌsɪkəl]NONE(无词性)- A trademark used for a colored, flavored ice confection with one or two flat sticks for a handle. This trademark sometimes occurs in lowercase in print:"The roast duck . . . is best avoided; it is the color of an orange popsicle and flabby" (Washington Post). It occurs in the plural: "The neighborhood children cavorted in the street buying snow cones and Popsicles" (Chicago Tribune). The trademark also occurs in figurative contexts: 棒冰:一种彩色的有香味的冰制甜食的商标名,这种冰棍装有一或两根扁木棍以便手持。这一商标名有时用小写体印刷:“烤鸭最不受欢迎;它有冰棍般的桔黄色且肉松而无味” (华盛顿邮报)。这个词也可用作复数: “邻近地区的孩子们在街上欢腾跳跃,竟相购买雪糕和冰棒” (芝加哥论坛报)。这一商标名也用于比喻: “[He] likes blue and lavender lighting and finds lots of excuses to use it in the neon Popsicle landscape whose unrealness he celebrates" (Boston Globe)“[他] 喜欢蓝色和淡紫色的灯光,并想尽借口将它们使用于霓虹灯广告牌中,他喜欢这种招牌的不真实性” (波士顿环球)
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