Sinew
['sɪnjuː] or ['sɪnju]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
(n.) Muscle; nerve.
(n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
(v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
伊莱錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Tendon.
科尔校對
解釋/意思:
n. that which joins a muscle to a bone a tendon: muscle nerve: that which supplies vigour.—v.t. to bind as by sinews: to strengthen.—adj. Sin′ewed furnished with sinews: (Shak.) strong vigorous.—n. Sin′ewiness the state or quality of being sinewy.—adjs. Sin′ewless having no sinews: without strength or power; Sin′ew-shrunk applied to a horse which has become gaunt-bellied from being overdriven; Sin′ewy Sin′ewous furnished with sinews: consisting of belonging to or resembling sinews: strong: vigorous.—Sinews of war money.
埃德娜校對
例句/造句/用法:
- These arrow-heads have generally a shoulder where the arrow was set into the shaft, there to be bound tightly with sinew or fiber. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- These they generally backed with sinew. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A sarcasm from her eyes or lips puts strength into every nerve and sinew I have. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Howe had the patience to wait, and in one way and another obtained the sinews of war to sue the infringers of his patents. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Canoes are made of logs hollowed out, or of birch bark stretched over a light frame, skilfully fastened with deers’ sinews and rendered water-tight by pitch. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- At last came she whom Tarzan sought, with lithe sinews rolling beneath shimmering hide; fat and glossy came Sabor, the lioness. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- They long made use of cordage twisted from cotton and other fibers, or formed from the inner bark of various trees and the roots of others, and from the hairs, skins and sinews of animals. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There's power here, said Mr. Jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I feel their irons already tear my sinews! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I arose again, laughing at my forgetfulness, and soon had mastered once more the art of attuning my earthly sinews to these changed conditions. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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