Curve
[kɜːv] or [kɝv]
解释:
(noun.) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter.
(noun.) a line on a graph representing data.
(noun.) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes.
编辑:利瓦伊--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
(a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
(a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
(a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
(v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
埃德蒙手打
同义词及近义词：
n. Bend, flexure, CURVATURE.
n. a. Bend, crook, inflect.
埃西手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Incurvation, flexion, deflexion
ANT:Rigidity, inelasticity, inflexibility, rectilinearity
SYN:Incurve, bend, inflex, falcate, arcuate
ANT:Straighten, unbend, rectilineate
手打:柯尔斯顿
解释:
n. anything bent: a bent or curved line: an arch.—v.t. to bend: to form into a curve.—adjs. Cur′vāte -d curved or bent in a regular form.—n. Curvā′tion.—adj. Cur′vative.—n. Cur′vature a curving or bending: the continual bending or the amount of bending from a straight line.—adjs. Curved; Cur′vicaudate having a crooked tail; Curvicos′tate having curved ribs; Curvifō′liate having curved leaves; Cur′viform; Cur′ving; Curviros′tral with the bill curved downward; Cur′vital of or pertaining to curvature.—n. Cur′vity the state of being curved.
编辑:利瓦伊
例句:
- We did not go very far along the road, for Holmes stopped the instant that the curve hid us from the landlord's view. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Her glance swept the horse-shoe curve of boxes. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The wind was down or we were protected by mountains that bounded the curve the lake had made. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Mr. Tupman looked at him very hard again; but there was not a wink in his eye, or a curve in his face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- We had to bank the tracks up to an angle of thirty degrees before we could turn the curve and stay on. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Lily had slept well, and her bath had filled her with a pleasant glow, which was becomingly reflected in the clear curve of her cheek. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It had the curves and indentations in it still, where it had been twined and bound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- One of Plato's associates, working under his direct ion, investigated the curves produced by cutting cones of different kinds in a certain plane. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- This model showed itself capable of traveling at high speed on a single rail, rounding sharp curves and even traversing with ease a wire cable hung in the air. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- At one point the grade dropped some sixty feet in a distance of three hundred, and the curves were of recklessly short radius. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I protested at the rate of speed over the sharp curves, designed to show the power of the engine, but Edison said they had done it often. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- These curves--the ellipse, the parabola, the hyperb ola--play a large part in the subsequent history of astronomy and mechanics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Other stone-cutting machines had for their objects the cutting and moulding the edges of tables, mantels and slabs; and the cutting of circular and other curved work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- This is the case: I observed that the young flower-peduncles of the above Maurandia curved themselves a little towards the side which was touched. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The cock, being curved like a snake, was called the serpentine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Later, the bowl became more pointed, the drop was replaced by a tongue, and the handle, after 1760, instead of slightly curving to the front at the end, reversed the position. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It was impossible, from that position, to see the fall, but I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Sometimes they cut spiral strips from the curving horns of a mountain sheep, and steamed them straight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Here, in a clearing upon the green slope of a hill, stood a long, low, stone house, approached by a curving drive running through the fields. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The view was pleasant; a highroad curving round the edge of a low lake, under the trees. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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