| 单词 | wind |
| 释义 | wind I. 1. a. < a light wind had come up > < the winds devastated the city > — compare current b. < felt the wind of a bullet as it passed his temple — C.B.Kelland > 2. a. < the wind of war had swept his home away — Stuart Cloete > < sow the wind and reap the whirlwind > b. < withstood the winds of popular opinion — Felix Frankfurter > < the bracing winds of human sympathy and understanding — J.D.Adams > c. < quick perception of the way campus winds were blowing — Arnold Nicholson > < too much impressed by current theological winds — I.G.Whitchurch > 3. a. (1) < leaned there on the cable, catching his wind — Wright Morris > < smote him with brutal violence in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him — Dorothy Sayers > (2) < established his own studio for the businessman anxious about his weight and his wind — D.G.Villard > < wind and leg muscles — Athletic Journal > (3) < hit a small boy in the wind to see him double up — W.B.Yeats > b. < wrote … in sonorous and rolling sentences in which one can still hear the wind of his oratory — Marjory S. Douglas > 4. 5. a. < was considered a little balmy when he seriously proposed stopping a train with wind — W.J.Reilly > b. archaic < the sword itself must be wrapped up close … that it taketh no wind — Francis Bacon > 6. a. < talks about erasing the border by a march on the North. This is mere wind. There will be no march — J.V.Kelleher > b. < theories based on wind > c. < all puffed up with wind > 7. a. < a great number of deer … entirely ignorant of anything amiss till after they passed me and received my wind — Ed Shearer > b. archaic < the project had taken wind and created a general sensation — W.H.Prescott > c. < the unhappy reporters who by this time had got wind of something and turned up in battalions — Dorothy Sayers > < caught wind of this situation — Richard Hellman > 8. a. (1) (2) (3) b. (1) < music for strings and for wind — D.W.Stevens > < the triplets played by the winds — Max Rudolf > < a good deal of wind detail is lost — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor > (2) winds plural 9. a. < come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain — Ezek 37:9 (Revised Standard Version) > b. 10. < cast the facts of royal history to the winds and invented his own essential drama — Leslie Rees > < went through deep snow, all anxiety thrown to the four winds — D.B.MacMillan > 11. < came to me this morning to raise the wind — Anthony Trollope > 12. < I'm not in the wind at all events, for you see I'm perfectly sober — Frederick Marryat > — compare sheet in the wind 13. < raised the wind over the inferior merchandise > 14. a. < deathtraps, hard to fly, easy to crash … good pilots had their wind up about the planes — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker > < you put the wind up me — Richard Llewellyn > b. < got their wind up about the neighbors' new fence > Synonyms: < light western winds > < winds of gale force > breeze is applicable to a relatively light but fresh wind with moderate velocity, often to a pleasing wind < not a steady, strong breeze like the trade winds of the low latitudes, but a boisterous stormy wind — P.E.James > < enjoying the brisk breeze that blew about his yellow hair — William Black > gale indicates a high wind, one between a breeze and a hurricane, sometimes of destructive force < not an inch of shelter anywhere in a gale, and the salt rain driven by the wind penetrates the thickest coat — Richard Jefferies > hurricane indicates a wind of maximum velocity and consequent destructive violence < towns and villages wrecked by the hurricane > gust indicates a sudden short wind, usually more severe than a puff, often accompanied by rain < a great gust of wind shook the windows of the house — J.C.Powys > blast may indicate a sudden wind with severe driving force < a copse of dark firs swayed uneasily under the heavy blasts of the gathering storm — F.V.W.Mason > squall refers to any sudden violent gust, especially to a sea gust with driving force < continuous and violent squalls nearly wrecked the craft — Alexander Klemin > zephyr indicates a light gentle delicate wind, one that would not disturb halcyon weather < soft the zephyr blows — Thomas Gray > whirlwind may apply to any swirling wind; technically it indicates a rotating windstorm with the lower air spiraling inward and upward < the whirlwind came fast. I could see the tops of the trees writhing and twisting — John Onslow > cyclone often indicates a rotating system of very high destructive winds about a moving center of low pressure < cyclones like those that lift roofs off houses in Kansas — Waldemar Kaempffert > typhoon is used in reference to cyclones in Asian Pacific waters < typhoons in Joseph Conrad's novels > tornado refers to a swirling wind accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud moving with a force so violent that it cannot be measured accurately < Kansas takes to the cyclone cellar when a tornado sweeps by and sucks wells dry — Waldemar Kaempffert > waterspout indicates a funnel-shaped or tubular column of wind enclosing a quantity of water. twister is a general informal term for any swirling wind like a tornado or waterspout < the first twisters hit in the early evening — Time > < when a twister had come at home, all the windows in Mr. Dannenbaum's house had been blown out — Jean Stafford > • - between wind and water - by the wind - down the wind - have in the wind - have the wind of - in the wind - near the wind - off the wind - under the wind II. transitive verb 1. < an otter could wind a fish at 40 furlongs — C.E.Hare > 2. 3. dialect chiefly Britain 4. < her hoof hit my side and winded me — Adrian Bell > < until acclimated, a person becomes winded from exertion — Bob Koonce > 5. 6. intransitive verb 1. 2. dialect III. transitive verb 1. < little fishing boats wind their conchs — Mary H. Vorse > 2. < wound a rousing call — R.L.Stevenson > intransitive verb IV. intransitive verb 1. obsolete a. (1) (2) b. < wind away, be gone I say — Shakespeare > 2. archaic 3. 4. a. obsolete < a creature that I teach to fight, to wind, to stop, to run directly on — Shakespeare > b. < a small road that wound up through pines — G.W.Brace > < the staircase wound round this hall — Margaret Deland > < a cave which winds far into the cliff — A.A.Grace > c. < the river winds down through rugged terrain > < a long caravan of cars wound through the streets — Phoenix Flame > < within the lines of these universal qualities wind the divergencies of medieval thought — H.O.Taylor > 5. a. < loose tapes which wind around the baby's limbs — Morris Fishbein > b. 6. a. b. 7. of a horse transitive verb 1. a. obsolete b. < the greatest crises of life steal on us imperceptibly and have sometimes … wound us in their consequences before we know — William Black > — often used with up < compassion … is intricately wound up with the doctrine of right living — Edmond Taylor > c. < the impulse to know … winds itself into every action — H.O.Taylor > d. obsolete 2. archaic 3. a. < wound the top with a new piece of string > < the women were wound up in fishtailed skirts — G.H.Reed b. 1887 > < sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms — Shakespeare > b. (1) < wound a heavy scarf around his neck > < devised a way of winding silk on a spool — American Guide Series: New Jersey > (2) < wound all the thread off the bobbin > c. (1) < wind up a bucket from a well — Adrian Bell > (2) d. (1) < four hours of moderate light wind the clock completely — Jewelers' Circular-Keystone > — often used with up < wound up the toy soldiers > (2) obsolete (3) < wound down the window on the right hand side of the car — J.M.Cain > e. < get so easily wound up … about these things that we could go on and on — W.F.Hambly > 4. a. < processions … wound themselves about the town in circles — Julian Dana > b. (1) archaic < can wind the proud earl to his will — Sir Walter Scott > (2) obsolete c. (1) (2) d. < winds the wood — John Dryden > e. (1) < wound his way up the tree — Willa Cather > < the forest through which the river winds its course — Alexander MacDonald > (2) < enabled travelers to reach the Mississippi without winding the endless curves of the Arkansas — American Guide Series: Arkansas > f. Synonyms: < wind thread or tape on a reel > < the road winds along the river > twist orig. and basically is to turn two threads about each other; it retains the suggestion of revolving within a narrow compass or of an outline having many small kinks rather than describing large loops or curves < the train wound around the mountain > < the dancer twisted slowly about herself > < a winding river > < a winding staircase > twine orig. is close to twist but does not have the connotation of tortuousness; it suggests something long and supple draped in spirals or loops about a solid body < the symbol of a serpent twined round a staff > < vines twining about a tree may kill it > entwine is originally an intensive form of twine; it may suggest merely a complete twining about or an inextricable entanglement. coil, curl, and wreathe place less emphasis on the action or motion of bending than on the resulting shape; coil means to roll, wind, or spin in rings or spirals < she wore her hair coiled on top of her head > < the waters in the maelstrom coiled and hissed > curl refers to the appearance made by a body of greater length than thickness in bending from its full extension into a shape suggesting a coil of hair, or by a flat surface in rippling and creasing < smoke curling in the blue air > < curling waves tossed against the shore > < lips curled in derision > wreathe may suggest creasing or crinkling < wreathed in smiles > or the assumption of a wreathy appearance < mists of night wreathe up from meadows — Walter de la Mare > V. 1. 2. a. (1) < took the board out of wind > (2) b. c. d. e. < a very open wind is used on the size tube … to minimize thread to thread adhesion — V.A.Schiffer > |
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