苏尔伯雷

蘇爾伯雷
Sū'ěrbóléi
proper noun #35,020

Meanings

  1. 1 Sowerberry (a surname; notably the undertaker family in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist)

Examples

Àolìfú bèi sòngdào Sū'ěrbóléi jiādāng xuétú.
Oliver was sent to the Sowerberrys' as an apprentice.
Sū'ěrbóléi xiānshēng shì gè bìnzàng yuán.
Mr. Sowerberry is an undertaker.

Tips

culture
苏尔伯雷 transliterates Sowerberry, the undertaker who takes in young Oliver as a coffin-maker's apprentice in Dickens's 《孤儿》 (Oliver Twist). The four characters split phonetically: Sow-er-ber-ry → ---.

Stroke Order

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