Spine
[spaɪn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin.
(noun.) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; 'the title and author were printed on the spine of the book'.
(noun.) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.
校對:马奇--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
(n.) A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
(n.) One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
(n.) The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
(n.) Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Thorn.[2]. Backbone, spinal column, vertebral column.[3]. Shin, forepart of the leg.
校對:雷明顿
解釋/意思:
n. a thorn: a thin pointed spike esp. in fishes: the backbone of an animal: any ridge extending lengthways: the heart-wood of trees.—adjs. Spined having spines; Spine′less having no spine weak; Spines′cent somewhat spiny; Spīnif erous bearing spines or thorns; Spī′niform shaped like a spine or thorn; Spīnig′erous bearing spines as a hedgehog; Spī′nigrade moving by means of spines as an echinoderm.—n. Spī′niness.—adjs. Spīnirec′tor erecting the spine of the muscles of the back; Spīnispir′ular spiny and somewhat spiral.—ns. Spīnī′tis inflammation of the spinal cord in the horse &c; Spin′ney Spin′ny a small thicket with underwood.—adjs. Spī′nose Spī′nous full of spines: thorny.—ns. Spinos′ity thorniness; Spin′ūla Spin′ūle a minute spine.—adjs. Spin′ūlāte Spin′ūlōse Spin′ūlous covered with spinules or minute spines; Spī′ny full of spines: thorny: troublesome: perplexed.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict's breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In the sea-urchins the steps can be followed by which a fixed spine becomes articulated to the shell, and is thus rendered movable. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- You recollect my mentioning Sarah, as the one that has something the matter with her spine? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He felt a slight shiver down his spine as he ventured this, but her laugh reassured him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Her being suffused into his veins like a magnetic darkness, and concentrated at the base of his spine like a fearful source of power. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was mystified; but when she saw the printed words beneath her signature, she felt a cold, clammy chill run up her spine. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Thus every gradation, from an ordinary fixed spine to a fixed pedicellariae, would be of service. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In this case the identity in nature between the arms of the pedicellariae and the movable branches of a spine, is unmistakable. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Birkin, as he drove, felt a creeping of the spine, as if somebody was threatening his neck. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But the great centre of his force held steady, a magnificent pride to him, at the base of his spine. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And Sarah's here--the one I mentioned to you as having something the matter with her spine, you know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Sarah has something the matter with her spine, poor girl. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If I lay on my face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to think of that dreadful snap. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- What an exquisite shudder it sent shivering along one's spine! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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