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单词 recrossing
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reˈcrossing
reˈcrossing n. and adj.
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1782 T. Paine Let. to Abbe Raynal 17 These, with some other circumstances, induced the re-crossing of the Delaware and taking possession of Trenton.
1799 C. B. Brown Edgar Huntly III. xxi. 28 I began to meditate the recrossing of the river.
1846 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1894) I. 208 Looking at the sea with its crossing and recrossing ships.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxvii. 378 The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and re-crossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
1897 Daily News 14 Dec. 8/4 An actor was never allowed to turn his back on the audience. Certain ‘crossings’ and ‘re-crossings’ had to be rigidly attended to.
1953 Condor 55 40 In spite of many crossings and recrossings of the most heavily inhabited area observed the evening before, I was unable to locate a nest.
1992 Dancing Times May 751/1 The dancers' constant crossings and re-crossings of their arms make this a gesturally ornamented dance.
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