Sag
[sæg] or [sɑɡ]
解释:
(noun.) a shape that sags; 'there was a sag in the chair seat'.
(verb.) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness.
(verb.) cause to sag; 'The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably'.
录入:斯科特--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
(v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
(v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
(v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
(n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.
整理:劳埃德
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Bend (by force of gravity), settle, swag, give way.
克莱尔手打
解释:
v.i. to bend sink or hang down: to yield or give way as from weight or pressure: to hang heavy: to make leeway.—n. a droop.—adj. loaded.
整理:斯特拉
例句:
- Treat it softly but do not let it sag so it will foul. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Telegraph and telephone wires which in winter are stretched taut from pole to pole, sag in hot weather and are much too long. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In summer they are exposed to the fierce rays of the sun, become strongly heated, and expand sufficiently to sag. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Lower and lower sagged the bow until it became necessary to stop the engine to prevent our flight terminating in a swift dive to the ground. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Karkov, a man of middle height with a gray, heavy, sagging face, puffed eye pouches and a pendulous under-lip called to him in a dyspeptic voice. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- In the construction of long wire fences provision must be made for tightening the wire in summer, otherwise great sagging would occur. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
校对:鲁珀特