Supple
['sʌp(ə)l] or ['sʌpl]
解释:
(verb.) make pliant and flexible; 'These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use'.
手打:利--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
(a.) Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.
(a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
(v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
(v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
(v. i.) To become soft and pliant.
海伦手打
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Pliant, flexible, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent.[2]. Yielding, compliant, submissive, humble, not obstinate.[3]. Servile, obsequious, cringing, slavish, fawning, grovelling, sycophantic.
校对:西蒙
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Pliant, bending, yielding, flexible, elastic, servile, fawning, cringing,adulatory, sycophantic, lithe, limber, compliant
ANT:Firm, unbending, unyielding, stiff, stubborn, inflexible, inelastic,independent, self-assertive, supercilious
录入:泽维尔
解释:
adj. pliant: lithe: yielding to the humour of others: fawning.—v.t. to make supple: to make soft or compliant.—v.i. to become supple.—n. Supp′leness.—adj. Supp′le-sin′ewed having supple sinews: lithe.—Supple Jack (U.S.) one of various climbing-shrubs with strong stems: a pliant cane.
科琳录入
例句:
- In the process the leather is made smooth, lustrous, supple and waterproof. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- His attitude is stately; he is lithe and supple; all his movements are full of grace. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- She came swiftly out to us, as straight as a lily on its stem, and as lithe and supple in every movement she made as a young cat. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I felt, as I looked upon that supple figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine; my joints more supple. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- In France it had been betrayed a second time by a Bonaparte, a nephew of the first Napoleon, but a much more supple and intelligent man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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