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单词 wind-up
释义
wind-up1 nounwind-up2 adjective
wind-upwind-up1 British English, wind‧up American English /ˈwaɪnd ʌp/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Berg tapped into the unpalatable side of public opinion, becoming addicted to verbal wind-ups and hostility with fatal results.
  • It should have been there by now and its non-appearance is a real wind-up.
  • It was a hell of an elaborate plan just for a wind-up.
  • It wasn't that I minded Fenella and I could have had fun doing a wind-up on her parents.
  • Perhaps it was a wind-up, he thought.
  • What if all this was merely a wind-up?
1[countable] British English informal something that you say or do in order to make someone angry or worried, as a joke2[singular] a series of actions that are intended to complete a process, meeting etc:  The president made a statement at the windup of the summit in Helsinki.
wind-up1 nounwind-up2 adjective
wind-upwind-up2 /ˈwaɪnd ʌp/ adjective [only before noun] Examples
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  • Directly in front of him were two wind-up monkeys, one with a tambourine and the other with a drum.
  • Estimates show that by the wind-up stage, the corporation would be left with just over 1,900 houses.
  • I hang up, feeling like a wind-up toy.
  • If he were a wind-up toy, he would run in an engaging curve backward.
  • Not even for a wind-up gramophone.
  • She was a wind-up putting-away doll, clicking through its programmed movements.
  • Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too.
  • The wind-up speech for the Government was made by John Nott.
relating to a machine or toy that you turn part of several times, in order to make it move or start working:  a wind-up gramophone
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