Bent
[bent] or [bɛnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a special way of doing something; 'he had a bent for it'; 'he had a special knack for getting into trouble'; 'he couldn't get the hang of it'.
(noun.) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; 'the set of his mind was obvious'.
(noun.) an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges.
(noun.) grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens.
(adj.) of metal e.g.; 'bent nails'; 'a car with a crumpled front end'; 'dented fenders' .
(adj.) fixed in your purpose; 'bent on going to the theater'; 'dead set against intervening'; 'out to win every event' .
手打:尤赖亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(-) of Bend
(-) imp. & p. p. of Bend.
(a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
(a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
(v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
(v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
(v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
(v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
(v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
(v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
(n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
(n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
(n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
編輯:尼特
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Disposition, inclination, tendency, turn, PENCHANT, leaning, bias, propensity, proclivity, predisposition, predilection, partiality, liking, fondness, proneness, appetency.
a. Crooked, hooked, bowed, curved, aduncous, ARCUATE, INCURVATE.
阿伊达整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Inclination, angle, direction, bias, determination, disposition, intention,prepossession, propensity, predilection, turn, leaning
ANT:Indisposition, aversion
道格拉斯校對
解釋/意思:
n. any stiff or wiry grass: the old dried stalks of grasses: a special genus (Agrostis) containing about sixty species of grasses all slender and delicate in appearance and some useful as pasture-grasses and for hay: a place covered with such a heath: a hillside.—Often Bent′-grass.—Ben′net is a variant a name applied to the wild barley-grass.—adj. Bent′y.—To take to the bent (Scot.) to fly to the moors to escape from some danger by flight.
n. leaning or bias: tendency: intention: natural inclination of the mind towards anything: the condition of being bent curved form: (rare) slope or declivity: (Shak.) a cast as of the eye: the extent to which a bow may be bent—degree of tension capacity of endurance as in the phrase 'to the top of one's bent' = to the full measure of one's inclination.
pa.t. and pa.p. of Bend.
編輯:米考伯
例句/造句/用法:
- The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Rinaldi bent it more. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I was bent on writing to Ponsonby. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Boultby heard and deliberated with bent brow and protruded under lip. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I bent over the body, and took in my hand the edge of his cloak, less altered in appearance than the human frame it clothed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When a ray of light passes from water or glass into air, the refracted ray is bent away from the perpendicular so that the angle of refraction is greater than the angle of incidence. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She bent her head slightly, without looking at him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It is not to be inferred, however, from some of the preceding statements that the boy was of an exclusively studious bent of mind. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A nation bent upon a policy of social invention would make its tools an incident. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Thus for ten days Little Dorrit bent over his pillow, laying her cheek against his. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I bent my head: I sat thinking an hour longer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- We indiscriminately employ children of different bents on the same exercises; their education destroys the special bent and leaves a dull uniformity. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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