单词 | hunched | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | hunchhunch2 verb Verb Table VERB TABLE hunch
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► hunch your shoulders Phrases (=raise your shoulders and bend them forwards slightly)· He hunched his shoulders against the rain. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► down· Then the driver hunched down with a magazine, the door buzzed open and Maxim went in.· Twist some dials, and the machine trembles, two robot arms pick up soldering irons and hunch down on him.· Billy Tolboys pulled up the collar of his ancient leather overcoat and hunched down even deeper into the motorcycle sidecar.· He stood up sleek and tall, hunched down, and launched himself for a closer look-see.· But Silk was already inside, hunched down low, Uzi searching for targets. ► forward· Emily hunched forward over her handlebars, tense and determined.· Pat took off her jacket and hunched forward.· Hammond was looking down, his shoulders hunched forward, as if he knew already what was in the second file.· They left off playing, let go hands and hunched forward as they left the alley and ent red the street.· A loping gait, he thought, with something tired in the way she hunched forward. ► over· Goggled officials hunched over consoles around tiers of cantilevered wrought-iron galleries, listening to data, whispering orders.· Some extend their billed baseball caps or hunch over and have the players sign their names on the back of their shirts.· He was hunched over the car.· The way they walk around hunched over.· Then as if the whole world had hunched over to block out the sun, the sky becomes as black as coal.· Although 70 years old and permanently hunched over from osteoporosis, she was still a compact bundle of energy.· He could picture him hunched over his desk, busily writing ... for ever writing.· Roy hunches over and stares at the floor. ► up· I sit there for quite a bit, hunched up on the pavement.· My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.· The figure was hunched up on the seat, its head on the table, apparently almost sleeping.· On the way down I see a red squirrel sitting hunched up and immobile, on a maple tree.· The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing, dozing lightly.· Its body is hunched up in a strange way, with its wings drooped, its feathers ruffled and its head lowered.· He stared down at the body hunched up in the bath.· He sat with his huge shoulders hunched up. NOUN► shoulder· She could feel him hesitating, shoulders hunching with the sense of something wrong.· His chin hung farther down on his chest as his shoulders hunched closer together.· Fenn froze, shoulders hunched, until the reverberations died away.· Her shoulders are hunched, her head down as she lopes across the court.· She looked at me slouching into my chair, shoulders hunched into my body.· Alan was concentrating too, his shoulders hunched, his head moving slightly as he read.· My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies. VERB► sit· The hawks and falcons sat hunched on their perches, lost in some inner world of stoop and updraught.· So we sat hunched at our desks, blackening out the story and accompanying pictures.· He sat hunched by the stern cleat, knife ready to cut the Zodiac free.· The room is quiet, as every child sits hunched over a piece of writing.· Employees sit hunched over their screens, or chat by the coffee machine.· Now he sits hunched over on the couch, wearing a roomy black overcoat with a pack of Marlboros in one pocket.· The coachman sat hunched over the reins, waiting. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► hunch your shoulders 1[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to bend down and forwards so that your back forms a curvehunch over He had to hunch over the steering wheel to see anything.2hunch your shoulders to raise your shoulders into a rounded shape because you are cold, anxious etc—hunched adjective: a hunched figure sitting by the fire
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