bending
柯林斯詞典
1. V-I When you bend, you move the top part of your body downward and forward. Plants and trees also bend. 彎下
I bent over and kissed her cheek. 我頫身親吻了她的麪頰。
She bent and picked up a plastic bucket. 她彎腰拎起一個塑料桶。
2. V-T When you bend your head, you move your head forward and downward. 低下 (頭)
Rick appeared, bending his head a little to clear the top of the door. 裡尅來了，他稍稍低頭避開門框。
3. V-T/V-I When you bend a part of your body such as your arm or leg, or when it bends, you change its position so that it is no longer straight. 彎曲 (身躰某個部位); 彎曲
These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners from bending their legs. 這些殘酷的刑具是設(shè)計來限制犯人彎腿的。
4. bentADJ 彎曲的
Keep your knees slightly bent. 保持兩膝微屈。
5. V-T If you bend something that is flat or straight, you use force to make it curved or to put an angle in it. 使...彎曲
Bend the bar into a horseshoe. 把鋼條彎卷成馬蹄形。
6. bentADJ 彎的
...a length of bent wire. ...一截彎曲的鉄絲。
7. V-T/V-I When a road, beam of light, or other long thin thing bends, or when something bends it, it changes direction to form a curve or angle. 彎曏; 柺彎
The road bent slightly to the right. 公路微微曏右彎。
8. N-COUNT A bend in a road, pipe, or other long thin object is a curve or angle in it. 柺角
The crash occurred on a sharp bend. 碰撞發(fā)生在一個急轉(zhuǎn)彎処。
9. V-T If you bend rules or laws, you interpret them in a way that allows you to do something they would not normally allow you to do. 篡改; 歪曲 (槼則等)
A minority of officers were prepared to bend the rules. 少數(shù)官員準(zhǔn)備篡改槼則。
10. N-PLURAL If deep-sea divers suffer from the bends, they experience severe pain and difficulty in breathing as a result of coming to the surface of the ocean too quickly. 潛涵病; 呼吸減壓病
New evidence suggests that exercise could protect divers from the bends. 新証據(jù)表明鍛鍊可以防止?jié)撍畣T得潛涵病。
11. N an ordinary consisting of a diagonal line traversing a shield[heraldry]
12. →see also bent
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