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单词 recumbent
释义
recumbentre‧cum‧bent /rɪˈkʌmbənt/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINrecumbent
Origin:
1700-1800 Latin present participle of recumbere ‘to lie down’
Examples
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  • And there was Iris Sunderby's recumbent body sprawled in the back.
  • He could not, for he was lying recumbent and unconscious on the carefully tended garden.
  • He searched the recumbent form of his captive roughly and, straightening, tossed a slim package to Alexei.
  • Midwestern tourists stopped to consider the recumbent women.
  • One must have served as a recumbent tombstone, since it has a slot at one end to hold a vertical cross.
  • She attacks, but never lets herself be drawn too far away from the recumbent, moaning body of her mistress.
  • To his horror, he discerned a recumbent shape at the side of the line.
lying down on your back or side
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