Paddle
['pæd(ə)l] or ['pædl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat.
(noun.) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board.
(noun.) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel.
(noun.) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games.
(verb.) stir with a paddle.
(verb.) propel with a paddle; 'paddle your own canoe'.
(verb.) swim like a dog in shallow water.
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解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
(v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
(v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.
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解釋/意思:
v.i. to dabble in water with the hands or the feet: to touch or toy with the fingers: to beat the water as with the feet: to row: to move in the water as a duck does: (slang) to make off.—v.t. to move by means of an oar or paddle: to finger toy with.—n. a short broad spoon-shaped oar used for moving canoes: the blade of an oar: one of the boards at the circumference of a paddle-wheel.—ns. Padd′le-beam one of the large timbers at the side of a paddle-wheel; Padd′le-board one of the floats on the circumference of a paddle-wheel; Padd′le-box a wooden box covering the upper part of the paddle-wheel of a steamer; Padd′ler one who paddles; Padd′le-shaft the axle on which the paddle-wheels of a steamer turn; Padd′le-wheel the wheel of a steam-vessel which by turning in the water causes it to move forward; Padd′le-wood the light strong wood of a Guiana tree of the dogbane family.
n. (B.) a little spade.—n. Padd′le-staff a spade for clearing a ploughshare.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Her hands lay on the paddle like slumber, she only wanted to see him, like a crystal shadow, to feel his essential presence. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The boat had a single paddle wheel in the middle near the stern, and was intended only for canal use, in the place of horses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- No practical business man would erect a turbine or paddle wheel without calculating in advance the value of his water power. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Symington’s boat of 1788 (Patrick Miller’s pleasure boat) had side paddle wheels. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The engines and paddle wheels of the Adirondack are distinctly representative of the modern American side wheel steamer. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Of course, the horse power to be obtained from a stream determines the size of the paddle wheel or turbine which can be run by it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I had worn out my boots paddling up office stairs, and I seemed just as far from getting a billet as ever. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- And she paddled softly, lingeringly, longing for him to say something meaningful to her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Gudrun paddled aimlessly here and there. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Two boats paddled near, their lanterns swinging ineffectually, the boats nosing round. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Gudrun paddled almost imperceptibly. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He watched her as she paddled away. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Bernouilli, Genevois, and the Marquis de Jouffroy used paddles on the duck’s foot principle, which closed when dragged forward, and expanded when pushed to the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The little pleasure-launch was fussing out from the shore, twanging its music, crowded with people, flapping its paddles. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He had rejected the plan of using paddles or oars, and also of forcing water out of the stern of the vessel, and had retained the idea of the paddle-wheel. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The wash of her paddles grew duller. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The next day I sailed to another island, and thence to a third and fourth, sometimes using my sail, and sometimes my paddles. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
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