| 单词 | distant-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdistant-looking b. With present participles, forming adjectives in which distant expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in distant-looking, distant-sounding, etc. ΚΠ 1802 J. Finlay Wallace 43 When Autumn's distant-sounding blast Sweeps hollow thro' the rip'ning corn. 1867 C. G. Leland Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Div. 49 We went forth determined to scale a distant-seeming summit. 1894 J. J. Astor Journey in Other Worlds iii. iii. 331 The cold, distant-looking sun, apparently about the size of an orange, was near the horizon. 1965 C. McCarthy Orchard Keeper (1993) 182 The rainwater blown from the trees pattered across the tin roof of the store, muffled and distant-sounding through the wallboard ceiling. 2006 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 6 Mar. 23 The main drum tracks are augmented by isolated, distant-sounding snare volleys. < as lemmas |
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