| 单词 | ninepins |
| 释义 | ninepins (once / 25751 pages) n WORD FAMILY ninepin: ninepins USAGE EXAMPLESRecords tumbled like ninepins as cinemas bruised by 2014's lacklustre takings got the perfect pick-me-up: namely, one must-see blockbuster after another. BBC(Dec 24, 2015) Friendship events planned for the end of the month to mark the 40th anniversary of the resumption of Sino-Japanese ties are falling like ninepins. New York Times(Sep 14, 2012) Rural, dusty, cracked public-houses; with frowzy gardens, with rotten, sloppy tables and benches; with beery gorillas playing at quoits and ninepins. Rameur, E., The Catholic World; Volume I, Issue...(2012) n a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins Syn|Hyper skittles bowling a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them |
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