Protract
[prə'trækt] or [pro'trækt]
解释:
(v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
(v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
(v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
(v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
(n.) Tedious continuance or delay.
录入:麦克唐纳
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Prolong, continue, draw out, lengthen, spin out.
校对:西尔玛
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Prolong, produce, elongate, defer, extend, lengthen, continue, draw_out
ANT:Shorten, abbreviate, curtail, contract, reduce
吉尔伯特校对
解释:
v.t. to draw out or lengthen in time: to prolong: to put off in time: to draw to a scale.—p.adj. Protrac′ted drawn out in time: tedious: prolonged: postponed.—adv. Protrac′tedly.—n. Protrac′ter.—adj. Protrac′tile susceptible of being thrust out.—n. Protrac′tion act of protracting or prolonging: the delaying of the termination of a thing: the plotting or laying down of the dimensions of anything on paper.—adj. Protrac′tive drawing out in time: prolonging: delaying.—n. Protrac′tor one who or that which protracts: a mathematical instrument for laying down angles on paper used in surveying &c.
弗洛西录入
例句:
- I should wish now to protract this moment _ad infinitum_; but I dare not. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- That would protract the mental uneasiness of Mr Venus too long, he said. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- And the man seemed resolved to protract it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She grew paler and paler as the process of tea-making was protracted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It's only the first labor, which is almost always protracted. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- But I also know,' pursued the old gentleman, 'the misery, the slow torture, the protracted anguish of that ill-assorted union. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- THESE events occupied so much time, that June had numbered more than half its days, before we again commenced our long-protracted journey. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- But I feel mine is not the existence to be long protracted under an Indian sun. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- De Long, who had an earnest and protracted conversation with Edison over the Arctic expedition he was undertaking with the aid of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I know there has been no impolicy in protracting his absence thus far. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
录入:维维恩