| 释义 |
horizontally, adv.|hɒrɪˈzɒntəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a horizontal position or direction.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 259 An obelisk erected, & golden figures placed horizontally about it. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 80 The Wind..blows horizontally. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 143 Panicle spreading horizontally. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. iv. 96 A glass tube..supported horizontally on two stands. 1934Hound & Horn VII. 596 He [sc. Stravinsky] is tired of..exploiting the folk tune, horizontally, vertically, atonally, seriously or comically. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xii. 126 Everybody had an interesting part, for the idea was to move horizontally rather than vertically. 1958Listener 9 Oct. 547/2 Differences throughout the Arab sector run both vertically and horizontally: between religious sects, social strata, settlers and nomads. 1959Ibid. 13 Aug. 245/1 A society so divided vertically as well as horizontally. |