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单词 double-edged
释义

double-edged

/dʌbəlˈɛdʒd /
adjective
1(Of a knife or sword) having two cutting edges.Men of the armies fought with double-edged swords, battle-axes, lances, slings, and weapons of archery....
  • The sheathed and double-edged sword, or dodhar, lying across it, once belonged to Shivaji.
  • Reaching over to his left side, he drew his weapon of choice, a long double-edged sword.
1.1Having two contradictory aspects or possible outcomes: the consequences can be double-edged...
  • The double-edged aspect of disorder in The Street is no-where more apparent than in its ambiguous evocation of gun violence.
  • This particular nexus of grief, women, and the poetic prophet is a tool with cultural connections which explain the double-edged ambivalences of Miltonic self-fashioning in Paradise Lost.
  • Therefore, all of LTC Leonhard's principles have a dual, double-edged nature.

Phrases

a double-edged sword

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