| 单词 | ruler-straight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasruler-straight ruler-straight adj. and adv. (a) adj. as straight as a ruler; very straight; (b) adv. in a very straight manner. ΚΠ 1906 W. T. Hornaday Camp-fires in Canad. Rockies iv. 42 In bad down timber, like that of lower Avalanche Creek, a trail takes a course..beside which chain lightning is ruler-straight. 1918 R. B. Ross Fifty-first in France v. 108 Those marvellous national highways, that take no account of contours, but run ruler-straight for miles. 1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 14 The horizon meets the sky in a ruler-straight line. 2001 Guardian 26 May (Saturday section) 2/1 Close cropped, ruler-straight hedgerows. 2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 116/1 Glittering buildings cropped ruler-straight at the bottom by the Hudson's dark waterline. < as lemmas |
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