Cramp
[kræmp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together.
(noun.) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued.
(verb.) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle.
(verb.) affect with or as if with a cramp.
(verb.) secure with a cramp; 'cramp the wood'.
整理:凯瑟琳--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
(n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
(n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
(n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
(v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
(v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
(v. t.) to bind together; to unite.
(v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
(v. t.) To afflict with cramp.
(n.) Knotty; difficult.
編輯:洛娜
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Spasm, crick, convulsion.[2]. [Rare.] Check, restriction, restraint, obstruction.[3]. Cramp-iron.
v. a. [1]. Affect with spasms.[2]. Restrain, obstruct, hinder, check, confine.[3]. Fasten with a cramp.
編輯:特伦斯
解釋/意思:
n. an involuntary and painful contraction of a voluntary muscle or group of muscles: restraint: a piece of iron bent at the ends for holding together wood stone &c.: a tool used by carpenters and others having a movable part which can be screwed tight so as to press things together.—adj. hard to make out (used of handwriting): cramped: narrow.—v.t. to affect with spasms: to confine: to hinder: to fasten with a cramp-iron.—ns. Cramp′bark the popular American name of the medicinal Viburnum Oxycoccus; Cramp′-bone the patella of the sheep an old charm for cramp; Cramp′-fish the electric ray or torpedo; Cramp′-ī′ron a piece of metal bent at both ends for binding things together; Cramp′on a grappling-iron: a pointed plate for the foot in hill-climbing; Cramp′-ring a ring formerly blessed by the sovereign on Good-Friday against cramp and the falling sickness.—adj. Cramp′y affected or diseased with cramp: producing cramp.—Bather's cramp the popular name for paralysis attacking a person while bathing; Writer's cramp or Scrivener's palsy a common disease affecting those in the habit of constant writing the muscles refusing to obey only on attempting to write.
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例句/造句/用法:
- As soon as his chattering teeth would let him speak, he smiled vacantly, and said he thought it must have been the Cramp. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, of Philadelphia, was launched Oct. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- His next movement was to take from his pocket a small, thick book of blank paper, to produce a pencil, and to begin to write in a cramp, compact hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His mind was sweetly at ease, the life flowed through him as from some new fountain, he was as if born out of the cramp of a womb. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- After questioning and examining her, Lydgate said to the house-surgeon in an undertone, It's not tumor: it's cramp. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Your Wellington is the most humdrum of commonplace martinets, whose slow, mechanical movements are further cramped by an ignorant home government. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I was cramped by my position and chilled to the bones. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is so crooked and cramped and dirty that one can not realize that he is in the splendid city he saw from the hill-top. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He was putting it up, when she said, 'I think it is a cramped, dazzling sort of writing. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Can I even remember when the chilled, cramped feeling left me, and the throbbing heat came in its place? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I was afraid of cramps and I hoped we would move toward the shore. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I will; and you shall hear how poor the proposal is,--how trivial--how cramping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
校對:史蒂文