请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 ankle
释义

Definition of ankle in English:

ankle

nounˈaŋk(ə)lˈæŋk(ə)l
  • 1The joint connecting the foot with the leg.

    Jennie fell downstairs, breaking her ankle
    as modifier an ankle injury
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She winced as the cuts, bruises and sprained ankle she had got as a parting gift from her former employer complained loudly.
    • The load fell on the young worker's legs causing serious injury to the right ankle and left foot.
    • She leapt to her feet and immediately had to jump to avoid a swipe of her master's pole that would have broken both her ankles had it connected.
    • How accurate are the Ottawa rules for ankle and foot injuries?
    • Wrist, arm or ankle fractures account for 50 percent of injuries.
    • Fortunately, the disease only affects my left side - hip, knee and ankle.
    • Lateral ligament injuries to the ankle joint are common among athletes.
    • The knee, ankle, spine, leg, and groin were the most common injury locations.
    • The company doctor tells him that he'll be laid up for months with a severe ankle and foot injury.
    • The protective high top slows down ankles as it prevents them from getting re-injured.
    • Brady suffered a traumatic brain injury and injuries to her left shoulder, left arm, back, neck, knee, ankle, pelvis and ribs.
    • Gil had a sprained ankle, and Wooten underwent surgery on his right thumb in March.
    • On Sunday I saw that he had all the same symptoms as Vicky had - swollen ankles, sickness and pains in his abdomen.
    • I'd been walking on the bad ankle a lot tonight, and it was definitely letting me know.
    • He happens to have a sprained ankle - wrapped in a brace - that won't heal because he won't stop riding.
    • I had a sprained ankle at the time and couldn't run.
    • She didn't even bother looking at him. Her ankle still throbbed from her previous fall and her favourite dress was now in tatters.
    • He played as long as he could despite two sprained ankles that got worse with every game.
    • During this interval there is rapid plantar flexion of the ankle joint due to concentric contraction of the triceps surae muscle.
    • These two bones together link the leg to the foot at the ankle joint, although it is the tibia which carries all the weight.
    1. 1.1 The narrow part of the leg between the ankle joint and the calf.
      her slim ankles
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He adds that he is handcuffed, shackled, and chained at the waist, which has rubbed his wrists and ankles raw.
      • He concentrated only on the image of cool fresh water, rising through his narrow ankles and lapping inside his shins.
      • Thick leather straps went around ankles, and thighs, holding her legs tight to the stone, forcing them WIDE apart.
      • Even the prospect of getting my trousers soaked in freezing rain from mid thigh to ankle doesn't put me off.
      • Meanwhile, people visiting the South Bank on a rainy day sink up to their ankles in puddles and steam through an indistinct symphony.
      • They all want to be the first to have a full body suit: that is, to be covered from neck to ankle in tattoos.
      • I stood in the center of the room, up to my ankles in cool ferns.
      • Mid calf or longer skirts even to ankle was the norm.
      • Today the Sun touches me everywhere, ankles, calves, thighs, arms; and striking through my hair warms me more than if I wore a linen shift and wool gown.
      • I was in the swamp… the very swamp that I had seen in the book… and I was up to my ankles in mud.
      • If you don't like a normal, strong side hip carry, then try something like a shoulder rig, ankle or pocket holster.
      • He stood between her legs and casually played with her feet and calves, holding her ankles, running his fingertips up the backs of her legs.
      • I started cutting not only my upper left arm, I started cutting my wrists, stomach, thighs, ankles and neck.
      • Your front thigh should be parallel to the floor and your calf straight above your ankle; your back leg should be almost to the floor.
      • He has his diamonds and ankle weights on and he's going for a jog.
      • Ilse tried not to concentrate on that, but try as she might, the delicate wrists and ankles, shapely calves and round arms spoke to her.
      • The pump fills the sleeves with air and gently squeezes the leg, squeezing from ankle to calf to thigh.
      • They tattoo their hands, arms, calves, ankles and I even saw one girl with a tattoo on her neck.
      • The bank sloped gradually and the water tickled her ankles, calves, thighs, and then waist with its warm tongue.
      • He removed her shoes and socks, running his hands over the warm skin on her ankles and calves.
verbˈaŋk(ə)lˈæŋk(ə)l
[no object]
  • 1US informal with adverbial of direction Walk.

    we can ankle off to a new locale
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Being sensible people, we ankled in and got a table.
    • We both ankled out of the theatre once Udo Kier was up there making love.
    1. 1.1with object Leave.
      he ankled the series to do a movie
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Kirk Douglas had originally been cast as Trautman, but he ankled the project when the producers refused to cave in to Douglas' demand that Trautman kill Rambo in the finale.
      • Fox Broadcasting marketing chief Roberta Mell has ankled her post.
      • John Willis has ankled his post as Granada Medias managing director for worldwide production.
  • 2usually as noun anklingFlex the ankles while cycling in order to increase pedalling efficiency.

    changing my pedalling style from toeing to ankling
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A method of pedaling known as 'ankling', or Anquetil's method, was popular in the 1960's and was thought to be the solution to cycling efficiency.
    • Ankling is an effective pedaling technique on level roads and slopes when riding at an average speed of around 20 km/h.
    • Can someone please help me to understand "ankling" and whether it is a desirable way to pedal, i.e. does ankling provide a more "rounded" pedal stroke?
    • Achilles tendon problems often result from "ankling" during the pedal stroke.

Derivatives

  • ankled

  • adjective
    • Beware of Thick Ankled Women!
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This article covers the crossed-ankled sitting position.
      • Where art thou gone, light-ankled youth?
      • So in one night Zeus shared the bed and love of the neat-ankled daughter of Electyron and fulfilled his desire.
      • But then Kadmos' daughter, slender-ankled Ino, saw him.

Origin

Old English ancleow, of Germanic origin; superseded in Middle English by forms from Old Norse; related to Dutch enkel and German Enkel, from an Indo-European root shared by angle1.

  • angle from Old English:

    The angle meaning ‘the space between two intersecting lines’ and the one meaning ‘to fish with a rod and line’, or ‘to prompt someone to offer something’ are different words. The first comes from Latin angulus ‘corner’ and the second is an Old English word from ancient Germanic roots. The Angles were a people who migrated to England from Germany during the 5th century and founded kingdoms in the Midlands and East Anglia, eventually giving their name to England and the English. They came from the district of Angul, on the long, curved peninsula that is now called Schleswig-Holstein, and are thought to have got their name because the area was shaped like a fish hook—angle is also an old name for a hook. The ankle (Old English), the bend in the leg, goes back to the same Indo-European root as angle.

Rhymes

rankle
 
 

Definition of ankle in US English:

ankle

nounˈaNGk(ə)lˈæŋk(ə)l
  • 1The joint connecting the foot with the leg.

    as modifier an ankle injury
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lateral ligament injuries to the ankle joint are common among athletes.
    • The knee, ankle, spine, leg, and groin were the most common injury locations.
    • He played as long as he could despite two sprained ankles that got worse with every game.
    • I had a sprained ankle at the time and couldn't run.
    • She didn't even bother looking at him. Her ankle still throbbed from her previous fall and her favourite dress was now in tatters.
    • The load fell on the young worker's legs causing serious injury to the right ankle and left foot.
    • Fortunately, the disease only affects my left side - hip, knee and ankle.
    • Brady suffered a traumatic brain injury and injuries to her left shoulder, left arm, back, neck, knee, ankle, pelvis and ribs.
    • Gil had a sprained ankle, and Wooten underwent surgery on his right thumb in March.
    • He happens to have a sprained ankle - wrapped in a brace - that won't heal because he won't stop riding.
    • The company doctor tells him that he'll be laid up for months with a severe ankle and foot injury.
    • She winced as the cuts, bruises and sprained ankle she had got as a parting gift from her former employer complained loudly.
    • These two bones together link the leg to the foot at the ankle joint, although it is the tibia which carries all the weight.
    • She leapt to her feet and immediately had to jump to avoid a swipe of her master's pole that would have broken both her ankles had it connected.
    • How accurate are the Ottawa rules for ankle and foot injuries?
    • On Sunday I saw that he had all the same symptoms as Vicky had - swollen ankles, sickness and pains in his abdomen.
    • During this interval there is rapid plantar flexion of the ankle joint due to concentric contraction of the triceps surae muscle.
    • Wrist, arm or ankle fractures account for 50 percent of injuries.
    • I'd been walking on the bad ankle a lot tonight, and it was definitely letting me know.
    • The protective high top slows down ankles as it prevents them from getting re-injured.
    1. 1.1 The narrow part of the leg between the foot and the calf.
      her slim ankles
      I stood up to my ankles in snow
      as modifier ankle socks
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He concentrated only on the image of cool fresh water, rising through his narrow ankles and lapping inside his shins.
      • Even the prospect of getting my trousers soaked in freezing rain from mid thigh to ankle doesn't put me off.
      • He has his diamonds and ankle weights on and he's going for a jog.
      • Thick leather straps went around ankles, and thighs, holding her legs tight to the stone, forcing them WIDE apart.
      • He adds that he is handcuffed, shackled, and chained at the waist, which has rubbed his wrists and ankles raw.
      • I started cutting not only my upper left arm, I started cutting my wrists, stomach, thighs, ankles and neck.
      • I was in the swamp… the very swamp that I had seen in the book… and I was up to my ankles in mud.
      • The bank sloped gradually and the water tickled her ankles, calves, thighs, and then waist with its warm tongue.
      • The pump fills the sleeves with air and gently squeezes the leg, squeezing from ankle to calf to thigh.
      • I stood in the center of the room, up to my ankles in cool ferns.
      • Today the Sun touches me everywhere, ankles, calves, thighs, arms; and striking through my hair warms me more than if I wore a linen shift and wool gown.
      • If you don't like a normal, strong side hip carry, then try something like a shoulder rig, ankle or pocket holster.
      • They all want to be the first to have a full body suit: that is, to be covered from neck to ankle in tattoos.
      • Meanwhile, people visiting the South Bank on a rainy day sink up to their ankles in puddles and steam through an indistinct symphony.
      • Ilse tried not to concentrate on that, but try as she might, the delicate wrists and ankles, shapely calves and round arms spoke to her.
      • He removed her shoes and socks, running his hands over the warm skin on her ankles and calves.
      • Your front thigh should be parallel to the floor and your calf straight above your ankle; your back leg should be almost to the floor.
      • Mid calf or longer skirts even to ankle was the norm.
      • They tattoo their hands, arms, calves, ankles and I even saw one girl with a tattoo on her neck.
      • He stood between her legs and casually played with her feet and calves, holding her ankles, running his fingertips up the backs of her legs.
verbˈaNGk(ə)lˈæŋk(ə)l
  • 1informal with object Leave.

    he ankled the series to do a movie
    Example sentencesExamples
    • John Willis has ankled his post as Granada Medias managing director for worldwide production.
    • Fox Broadcasting marketing chief Roberta Mell has ankled her post.
    • Kirk Douglas had originally been cast as Trautman, but he ankled the project when the producers refused to cave in to Douglas' demand that Trautman kill Rambo in the finale.
    1. 1.1US no object Walk.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Being sensible people, we ankled in and got a table.
      • We both ankled out of the theatre once Udo Kier was up there making love.
  • 2usually as noun anklingno object Flex the ankles while cycling in order to increase pedaling efficiency.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Can someone please help me to understand "ankling" and whether it is a desirable way to pedal, i.e. does ankling provide a more "rounded" pedal stroke?
    • Achilles tendon problems often result from "ankling" during the pedal stroke.
    • A method of pedaling known as 'ankling', or Anquetil's method, was popular in the 1960's and was thought to be the solution to cycling efficiency.
    • Ankling is an effective pedaling technique on level roads and slopes when riding at an average speed of around 20 km/h.

Origin

Old English ancleow, of Germanic origin; superseded in Middle English by forms from Old Norse; related to Dutch enkel and German Enkel, from an Indo-European root shared by angle.

 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 3:32:01