Sway
[sweɪ] or [swe]
解释:
(v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
(v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
(v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
(v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
(v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
(v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
(v. i.) To have weight or influence.
(v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
(n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
(n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
(n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
(n.) Rule; dominion; control.
(n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
伊恩校对
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Move, wield, swing, wave, brandish.[2]. Bias, prejudice, bend, turn, influence, persuade, prevail upon.[3]. Rule, govern, direct, guide, control.
v. n. Incline, lean.
n. Power, dominion, control, domination, command, rule, government, sovereignty, ascendancy, authority, predominance, mastership, mastery, supreme power.
科林整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Influence, govern, rule, bias, wave, swing, {[wiel<]?},[See MARSH]
SYN:Wield, influence, rule, authority, government, superiority, bias, dominion,control, preponderance, domination, supremacy, mastery, ascendency, weight,force, power
ANT:Weakness, Inferiority, subordination, irresistance, obedience, subservience,subjection
录入:文斯
解释:
v.t. to swing or wield with the hand: to incline to one side: to influence by power or moral force: to govern: to hoist raise.—v.i. to incline to one side: to govern: to have weight or influence.—n. the sweep of a weapon: that which moves with power: preponderance: power in governing: influence or authority inclining to one side: a thatcher's binding-switch.—adj. Swayed (Shak.) bent down and injured in the back by heavy burdens—said of a horse.
艾琳校对
例句:
- The earth seemed to tilt and sway, and a complete darkness was coming over his mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The joint family system, he said, has descended to us from time immemorial, the Aryan patriarchal system of old still holding sway in India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Though warm-hearted and sympathetic, she was not nervous; powerful emotions could rouse and sway without exhausting her spirit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I've looked in upon you, and empire resumes her sway. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Throughout the fourteenth century the papacy did nothing to recover its moral sway. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Greek language resumed its sway, which had never been very seriously undermined by the official use of Latin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We know that the principal feature, when we are dreaming, is the absence of our control over the current of thought, so that the principal of suggestion has an unlimited sway. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The car lurched and swayed. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Dr. Keith, swayed by the jaw-bone, does not think that _Eoanthropus_, in spite of its name, is a creature in the direct ancestry of man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- You think me unsteady: easily swayed by the whim of the moment, easily tempted, easily put aside. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- For, indeed, who is there alive that will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to the place of his birth? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- As dark night drew on, the sea roughened: larger waves swayed strong against the vessel's side. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But he reached further, the boat swayed violently. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The darkness seemed to be swaying in waves across his mind, great waves of darkness plunging across his mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- A breeze had sprung up, swaying inward the muslin curtains, and bringing a fresh scent of mignonette and petunias from the flower-box on the balcony. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- She sat down in her little rocking-chair before the fire, swaying thoughtfully to and fro. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The half-dark waters were sprinkled with lovely bubbles of swaying lights, the launch did not look far off. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Greek dances are rather monotonous, I am afraid, said Roylands, who found this incessant swaying a trifle wearisome. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The swaying tide swept this way, and then it fell back, and I followed its retreat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Miss Havisham, with her head in her hands, sat making a low moaning, and swaying herself on her chair, but gave no answer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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