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单词 to crane one's head
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to crane one's head
2. To stretch (the neck) like a crane. (Also, rarely, to crane one's head.)
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > specific part of body
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reachOE
stretcha1375
to make a long neck1490
stram1792
crane1799
1799 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 64 A grotesque being, a little man who can..crane up his neck to the top-tower window.
1849 R. Curzon Visits to Monasteries Levant 319 We all craned our necks over the edge to see what had become of our companion.
1886 W. H. Mallock Old Order Changes III. 34 Craning his head forward he looked in the direction indicated.
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