Zigzag
['zɪgzæg] or ['zɪɡzæɡ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
(verb.) travel along a zigzag path; 'The river zigzags through the countryside'.
(adj.) having short sharp turns or angles .
(adv.) in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; 'birds flew zigzag across the blue sky'.
錄入:皮埃尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Something that has short turns or angles.
(n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
(n.) See Boyau.
(a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
(v. t.) To form with short turns.
(v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
校對:诺琳
解釋/意思:
n. a short sharp turning.—adj. having short sharp turns bent from side to side.—v.t. to form with short turns:—pr.p. zig′zagging; pa.p. zig′zagged.—adv. with frequent sharp turns—also Zig′zaggy.—n. Zigzag′gery angular crookedness.—adj. Zig′zaggy zigzag.
手打:朱迪
娱乐性解釋/意思：
v.t. To move forward uncertainly from side to side as one carrying the white man's burden. (From zed z and jag an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)
安琪編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
The popular route after a heavy dinner. Old adage, 'The longest way round is the drunkard's way home!'
克莱奥校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He replaced the recording pencil with a fountain pen, and instead of the zigzag signals used the short and long lines that came to be called dots and dashes. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Andreu Nin was in the first zigzag belt of wire. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- On being released the pendulum would return, and in this way zigzag markings, as shown at 4 and 5, would be produced on the strip of paper, which formed the alphabet. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- This siphon is vibrated by the electric impulses to produce on the paper strip a zigzag line, whose varying contour is made to represent letters. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The road, said to have been built by Cortez, zigzags around the mountain-side and was defended at every turn by artillery. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Two or three lamps were rained out and blown out; so, both saw the lightning to advantage as it quivered and zigzagged on the iron tracks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- On the east side the slope is much more gradual, and a good wagon road, zigzagging up it, connects the town of Chattanooga with the summit. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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