| 单词 | hairpin bend |
| 释义 | > as lemmashairpin bend 3. In full hairpin bend, hairpin corner, etc. A sharp bend in a road or course likened to a hairpin in form. ΘΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > bend jamb1567 right1735 bend1803 lacet1847 hairpin bend1906 Z-bend1958 right-hander1963 virage1963 left-hander1964 1906 Daily Chron. 15 June 6/5 The length and steepness of the rise complicated by a double-hairpin corner. 1906 Amer. Mag. 63 176/1 At hairpin turn, perhaps the worst of all, where the course doubles itself, were 500 machines and at least 10,000 people. 1912 Motor 23 Apr. (Suppl.) 2 As we dropped down the gentle ‘hairpins’ into Voreppe. 1912 G. B. Shaw Let. 9 Aug. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 33 A journey of 800 miles includes crawls up endless hairpin zigzags. 1912 G. B. Shaw Let. 17 Sept. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 148 Reversing at impossible hairpin corners. 1914 Auto-Motor Jrnl. 410/2 It is not unlike the higher part of Birdlip Hill, starting with a long and steep gradient and ending with a sharp hairpin bend just below the summit. 1923 Motor Cycle 13 Sept. 373/1 There is only one acute hair-pin bend, but there are several corners. 1923 Motor Cycle 13 Sept. 374/1 A rather tricky and loose-surfaced left-hand hairpin was the principal feature of Chinnor Hill. 1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble iii. 36 Its sudden ascents and declivities, its blind curves and hairpin bends flanked by unguarded precipices. 1971 D. O'Connor Eye of Eagle iii. 20 I..was driving up the hairpins that mark the beginning of the Simplon Pass. < as lemmas |
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