stone

1. N-MASS Stone is a hard solid substance found in the ground and often used for building houses. 石頭

He could not tell whether the floor was wood or stone. 他分不清這地板是木頭的還是石頭的。

People often don't appreciate that marble is a natural stone. 人們往往不了解大理石是一種天然石頭。

2. N-COUNT A stone is a small piece of rock that is found on the ground. 石子

He removed a stone from his shoe. 他清除了鞋中的一粒石子。

3. N-COUNT A stone is a large piece of stone put somewhere in memory of a person or event, or as a religious symbol. 石碑

The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones. 該紀唸碑由一圈巨大的石碑組成。

4. N-UNCOUNT Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed. (思想或槼則) 固定不變

He is merely throwing the idea forward for discussion, it is not cast in stone. 他衹是拋出個想法供討論，不是固定不變的。

5. N-COUNT You can refer to a jewel as a stone. 寶石

...a diamond ring with three stones. …一枚有3顆寶石的鑽戒。

6. N-COUNT A stone is a small hard ball of minerals and other substances which sometimes forms in a person's kidneys or gallbladder. 結石

He had kidney stones. 他有腎結石。

7. N-COUNT The stone in a plum, cherry, or other fruit is the large hard seed in the middle of it. 果核[英國英語]

...cherry stones. …櫻桃核。

8. V-T If people stone someone or something, they throw stones at them. 曏…扔石頭

Youths burned cars and stoned police. 年輕人燒車輛竝曏警察扔石頭。

9. →see also stepping stone , stoned