Flexible
['fleksɪb(ə)l] or ['flɛksəbl]
解释:
(adj.) bending and snapping back readily without breaking .
(adj.) able to flex; able to bend easily; 'slim flexible birches' .
(adj.) capable of being changed; 'flexible schedules' .
奥古斯都手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
(a.) Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
(a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
录入:斯威尼
同义词及近义词：
a. Pliable, pliant, limber, flexible, lithe, supple, not stiff, not rigid, easily bent.
埃德加整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Pliant, lithe, supple, elastic, easy, indulgent, ductile, flexile, yielding,pliable
ANT:Tough, rigid, inelastic, inflexible, hard, inexorable
卡门录入
解释:
adj. easily bent: pliant: docile.—v.t. Flex to bend or make a flexure of.—adjs. Flexan′imous influencing the mind; Flexed bent.—ns. Flex′ibleness Flexibil′ity pliancy: easiness to be persuaded.—adv. Flex′ibly.—ns. Flex′ion Flec′tion a bend: a fold: the action of a flexor muscle; Flex′or a muscle which bends a joint as opposed to Extensor.—adjs. Flex′ūous Flex′ūose of windings and turnings: variable.—n. Flex′ūre a bend or turning: (math.) the curving of a line or surface: the bending of loaded beams: (Shak.) obsequious bowing.
校对:马奇
例句:
- For the latter something less flexible than rope is needed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The telephone receiver was held on the head with a spring, the flexible connecting wire being attached to the lap board, thus leaving the operator with both hands free. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Then 800 pulses of air will reach the ear each second, and the ear drum, being flexible, will respond and will vibrate at the same rate. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- So at last he was given again, warm and flexible. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It parts with its flexible responsiveness and alert eagerness for additional meaning. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- A maximum reading can then be made by manipulating the flexible connections, and this will show whether the two circuits are in accord. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- This is done by means of a flexible tube, through which air is forced into the bell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- But intellectual tools are indefinitely more flexible in their range of adaptation than other mechanical tools. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The mouthpiece A had adjacent to the cylinder a flexible diaphragm carrying a little point or stylus which bore against the tin foil on the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- It is everlastingly difficult to keep the mind flexible and alert. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- He felt his limbs growing fuller and flexible with life, his body gained an unknown strength. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This means a wider and more flexible observation of means. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Our primary care must be to keep the habits of the mind flexible and adapted to the movement of real life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- An aim must, then, be flexible; it must be capable of alteration to meet circumstances. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They arise from the palate, and are attached by flexible membrane to the sides of the mandible. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- We should remember that the skull at this early age is cartilaginous and flexible, so that it readily yields to muscular action. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The methods of securing representation are unfit instruments for any flexible use. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Woodrow Wilson brought to public life an exceedingly flexible mind,--many of us when he first emerged rejoiced at the clean and athletic quality of his thinking. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Successful singing is possible only when the vocal cords are readily flexible and when the singer can supply a steady, continuous blast of air through the slit between the cords. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Air is supplied by means of a flexible tube which enters the helmet and communicates with an air pump above. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- All the ancient civilized peoples used ropes and cordage, made from such flexible materials as their countries afforded. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- To allow of the escape of the used air there is sometimes another flexible tube, which is led from the back part of the helmet to the surface of the water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Air is supplied through a flexible tube by a compression pump. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- His mind is lucid and flexible, and he has the faculty of taking advice quickly, of stating something he has borrowed with more ease and subtlety than the specialist from whom he got it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- This made practicable the present flexible, transparent film with its attendant convenience and dependability. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- None of these massed infantry formations was flexible enough to stand a flank or rear attack. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The sight of such a flexible bend as that on grim Egdon was quite an apparition. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- For this is what general means; broad and flexible. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- These shapes have no angles: a caryatid in marble is almost as flexible; a Phidian goddess is not more perfect in a certain still and stately sort. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- He nailed the piece of gum outside the kitchen door in the intense cold, and upon examining it the next morning found it as perfectly flexible as when he put it out. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
校对:马奇