Curl
[kɜːl] or [kɝl]
解释:
(noun.) American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933).
(verb.) form a curl, curve, or kink; 'the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling'.
(verb.) play the Scottish game of curling.
(verb.) twist or roll into coils or ringlets; 'curl my hair, please'.
录入:特德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
(v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
(v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
编辑:洛娜
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Ringlet.[2]. Sinuosity, undulation, flexure, wave.
v. a. [1]. Crisp, turn in ringlets.[2]. Writhe, wind, twist.[3]. Raise in waves.
v. n. Be bent into curls or waves.
海尔格校对
解释:
v.t. to twist into ringlets: to coil.—v.i. to shrink into ringlets: to rise in undulations: to writhe: to ripple: to play at the game of curling.—n. a ringlet of hair or what is like it: a wave bending or twist.—adjs. Curled; Curled′-pate (Shak.) having curled hair.—ns. Curl′er one who or that which curls: a player at the game of curling; Curl′icue a fantastic curl; Curl′iewurlie (Scot.) any fantastic round ornament; Curl′iness; Curl′ing a game common in Scotland consisting in hurling heavy smooth stones along a sheet of ice.—ns.pl. Curl′ing ī′rons Curl′ing-tongs an iron instrument used for curling the hair.—n. Curl′ing-stone a heavy stone with a handle used in curling.—adjs. Curl′y having curls: full of curls; Curl′y-head′ed.
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例句:
- One curl of a girl's ringlet, one hair of a whisker, will turn the scale against them all in a minute. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Miss Moss, a dark-eyed maid in curl-papers, appeared with the teapot, and, smiling, asked the Colonel how he had slep? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Standing before the dressing-glass was a middle-aged lady, in yellow curl-papers, busily engaged in brushing what ladies call their 'back-hair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I asked my friend, the young Marquis of Worcester, why he did not curl his straight locks. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- There he leant over the wall and lowered the lamp, only to behold the vortex formed at the curl of the returning current. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It will be remembered that Senator Roscoe Conkling, then very prominent, had a curl of hair on his forehead; and all the caricaturists developed it abnormally. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But it does not curl around inside of you the way the absinthe does, he thought. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Monsieur curled his lip, gave me a vicious glance of the eye, and strode to his estrade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Mr. Dick, who is to give my darling to me at the altar, has had his hair curled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The corners of the Sergeant's melancholy mouth curled up, and he looked hard in my face, just as he had looked in the garden. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- And here, Noah nodded his head expressively; and curled up as much of his small red nose as muscular action could collect together, for the occasion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- She curled her legs between his and rubbed the top of her head against his shoulder. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- These flat brims curled at the edge came in then. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Eva's curls are my pride. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I would almost as soon believe that the cat curls the end of its tail when preparing to spring, in order to warn the doomed mouse. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and their curls lack crispness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Put one in mine then, that I wish all my curls cut off, and given round to my friends. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Those deep gray eyes rather near together--and the delicate irregular nose with a sort of ripple in it--and all the powdered curls hanging backward. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He had light-brown curls. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Chancing for an instant to look down, his glance rested on an uplifted face, flushed, smiling, happy, shaded with silky curls, lit with fine eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The boy was a handsome, bright-eyed mulatto, of just Henrique's size, and his curling hair hung round a high, bold forehead. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- In this young sportsman, distinguished by a crisply curling auburn head and a bluff countenance, the Secretary descried the orphan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It was the precise, crackling, curling roll of automatic rifle fire. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- As the wax dropped into the fire a long flame arose from the spot, and curling its tongue round the figure ate still further into its substance. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- You needn't do that, said Crispin, curling his lip as he observed the action; we are not going to punish you. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
编辑:尼特