Drag
[dræg]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of dragging (pulling with force); 'the drag up the hill exhausted him'.
(noun.) clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); 'he went to the party dressed in drag'; 'the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag'.
(noun.) something tedious and boring; 'peeling potatoes is a drag'.
(noun.) something that slows or delays progress; 'taxation is a drag on the economy'; 'too many laws are a drag on the use of new land'.
(noun.) the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
(verb.) proceed for an extended period of time; 'The speech dragged on for two hours'.
(verb.) persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; 'He dragged me away from the television set'.
(verb.) pull, as against a resistance; 'He dragged the big suitcase behind him'; 'These worries were dragging at him'.
(verb.) to lag or linger behind; 'But in so many other areas we still are dragging'.
(verb.) move slowly and as if with great effort.
(verb.) use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; 'drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen'.
手打:列侬--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
(v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
(v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
(v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
(v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
(v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
(v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
(v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
(v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
(v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
(v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
(v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
(v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
(v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
(v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
(v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
(v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
(v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
(v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
(v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
黛博拉編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Draw, pull, haul, tug.
v. n. [1]. Trail, be drawn along.[2]. Linger, move slowly, make slow progress.
安迪編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Draw, pull, haul, bring
ANT:Carry, convey, push, propel, raise, heave
柯蒂斯校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to draw by force: to draw slowly: to pull roughly and violently: to explore with a drag-net or hook.—v.i. to hang so as to trail on the ground: to be forcibly drawn along: to move slowly and heavily:—pr.p. drag′ging; pa.p. dragged.—n. a net or hook for dragging along to catch things under water: a heavy harrow: a device for guiding wood to the saw: a mail-coach: a long open carriage with transverse or side seats: a contrivance for retarding carriage-wheels in going down slopes: any obstacle to progress: an artificial scent (anise-seed &c.) dragged on the ground for foxhounds trained to the pursuit (Drag′-hounds) to follow: (billiards) a push somewhat under the centre of the cue-ball causing it to follow the object-ball a short way.—ns. Drag′-bar a strong iron bar for connecting railway-carriages together—also Draw′-bar; Drag′-bolt a strong bolt passing through the drag-bar of railway-carriages and serving to fasten the coupling; Drag′-chain the chain that connects engine and tender or carriages and wagons with one another; Drag′-man a fisherman who uses a drag-net; Drag′-net a net to be dragged or drawn along the bottom of water to catch fish; Drags′man the driver of a drag or coach.
編輯:耶鲁
例句/造句/用法:
- Weight of gun, carriage, limber, drag ropes, tools, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Alvays see to the drag ven you go downhill. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Persuade her to rise, dear Madam; drag her from her couch and her low spirits; insist upon her taking little drives. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Worth my while, too, to murder him, when I could do worse and drag him back! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- You have all my heart yet, I believe; and because you bear with me, who am in truth a drag upon you, I owe you thanks. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Go you to England, and leave me where alone I can consent to drag out the miserable days which I must still live. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I can force him from his position of security, I can drag him and his villainy into the face of day, by no other means. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There was a broad swath in the snow where the man dragged with a scarlet streak along one side of it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- When used in the field they were dragged about by many yokes of oxen. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He dragged on his second shoe. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I not only prevented him getting off the marshes, but I dragged him here,--dragged him this far on his way back. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Then she was dragged toward those awful fangs which yawned at her throat. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Conscience, and honour, and the most despotic necessity dragged me apart from her, and kept me sundered with ponderous fetters. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Luttrell now peeped his nose into my box, and said, dragging in his better half, half-brother I mean, fat Nugent, A vacancy for two! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Ten yokes of oxen dragging a boat with sails out of the sea in the morning with the line of the small waves breaking on the beach. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The reins were broken, but they had been dragging on the ground. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The men were still dragging the lake when he got back. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His right leg was dragging, the side of the shoe scraping on the road as they walked him. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- She knew the strength of the opposing impulses-she could feel the countless hands of habit dragging her back into some fresh compromise with fate. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- For the cart so hard to draw is near its journey's end and drags over stony ground. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The drags were called for. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
編輯:塔比瑟