Floats

例句:

• Sometimes soap refuses to form a lather and instead cakes and floats as a scum on the top of the water; this is not the fault of the soap but of the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The ball is set in a basin of mercury, where it floats. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Several attempts have been made to remedy this defect, and to produce what is called feathering floats, every one of which will act against the water at right angles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Diggory, having returned to the brink of the pool, observed that the small upper hatches or floats were withdrawn. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The great lantern, Fig. 45, is carried by a vertical shaft, which terminates at its lower end in a hollow drum, which latter floats in a bath of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Langley' s method of launching had been proved practical, but Curtiss finally deci ded to start from the water, and accordingly fitted the aeroplane with hydroae roplane floats. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But the ice is lighter than water and floats on top, and animals in the water beneath are as free to live and swim as they were in the warm sunny days of summer. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• One has but to remember that bottles of water burst when they freeze, and that ice floats on water like wood, to know that water expands on freezing or on solidifying. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In No. 11 a layer of liquid air on water at first floats because it is lighter than water. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Some hazy idea that if affairs could remain thus for a long time it would be a respectable change, floats in her mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The mechanism required for making this adjustment is, however, liable to get out of order, and the introduction of vertically acting floats has consequently been very limited. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The depths of the stars and the minutest mote that floats in the sun beam reflect the glory of those inventions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• To facilitate the free and sensitive adjustment of this great mirror its base floats in a reservoir of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Proud Templar, said the King, thou canst not--look up, and behold the Royal Standard of England floats over thy towers instead of thy Temple banner! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The particular style of percolator shown in Fig. 9 has no valves or floats or traps that continually get out of order and that make the cleaning of a percolator so disagreeable. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The object he had expected to take in tow, floats by, and his own boat tows him dead, to where we found him, all entangled in his own line. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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