Sheer
[ʃɪə] or [ʃɪr]
解释:
(verb.) cause to sheer; 'She sheered her car around the obstacle'.
(adv.) directly; 'he fell sheer into the water'.
(adv.) straight up or down without a break.
校对:杜鲁门--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
(v. t.) To shear.
(v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
(n.) A turn or change in a course.
(n.) Shears See Shear.
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同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Pure, unmixed, simple, mere, bare, naked.[2]. Perpendicular.
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同义词及反义词:
SYN:Pure, mere, unmixed, unqualified, unmitigated, absolute, simple, unadulterated
ANT:Mixed, qualified, adulterated, modified, partial
整理:华莱士
解释:
adj. pure: unmingled: simple: without a break perpendicular.—adv. clear: quite: at once.
v.i. to deviate from the line of the proper course as a ship: to turn aside.—n. the deviation from the straight line or the longitudinal curve or bend of a ship's deck or sides.—ns. Sheer′-hulk an old dismasted ship with a pair of sheers mounted on it for masting ships; Sheer′-leg one of the spars.—n.pl. Sheers an apparatus for hoisting heavy weights having usually two legs or spars spread apart at their lower ends and bearing at their tops where they are joined hoisting-tackle.
校对:玛克辛
例句:
- Nay, he replied, 'suppose' is not the word--I know it; but you will be found out, and by sheer force of argument you will never prevail. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I resolved to try it in sheer despair of knowing what better to do. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The other seized the die, and clenched his teeth upon it in sheer rage, as if he would bite it in pieces. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- He hated the sheer African thing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Hor Vastus turned in the direction indicated by Carthoris, and as his eyes fell upon me he was like to have collapsed from sheer surprise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- At the sheer rock where the road went out of sight they saw him stop and lean against the rock and fire back up the road. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- In the distance a slope sheered down from a peak, with many black rock-slides. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She held on to him as they went sheering down over the keen slope. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- And he found what he desired, a perfect long, fierce sweep, sheering past the foot of a rock and into the trees at the base. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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