Lengthening
[ləŋkθəniŋ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lengthen
艾布拉姆編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But the course of civilization has been marked by an artificial lengthening of the day, and by a constant striving after more perfect means of illumination. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is useful for the making of chains, tools, carriage axles, joining shafting, wires, and pipes, mending bands, tires, hoops, and lengthening and shortening bolts, bars, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening nights of the whole drear month of November. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It came back by fits, but those grew fainter and returned at lengthening intervals. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of a post, and practise at it, beginning at a short distance, and lengthening it by degrees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Old plants are lengthening their kilns wherever practicable, and no wide-awake manufacturer building a modern plant could afford to install other than these long kilns. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
整理:泰丝