英:[ə'bli:klɪ]
美:[ə'bliklɪ]
英:[ə'bli:klɪ]
美:[ə'bliklɪ]
adv.
斜
倾斜
间接
不光明正大
词根:oblique
adj.oblique 斜的;不光明正大的
n.oblique 倾斜物
obliquity 倾斜;倾斜度;不正直
obliqueness 倾斜;斜度;歪斜
vi.oblique 倾斜
adjective
neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined
oblique lines
having the axis not perpendicular to the base
an oblique cone
having no right angle
an oblique triangle
not straightforward : indirectalso: obscure … much of what there is to see is nuanced and oblique—a shadow of a shadow of a shadow. —New Yorker
In her speech she made only oblique references to the scandal.
devious, underhanded
… the open, above-board fury of his mind coagulated, thickened, and sunk to a dull, evil hatred, a wicked, oblique malevolence.—Frank Norris
situated at an angle and having one end not inserted on bone
oblique muscles
taken from an airplane with the camera directed horizontally or diagonally downward
an oblique photograph
noun
something (such as a line) that is oblique
or oblique muscle any of several oblique musclesespecially: any of the thin flat muscles forming the middle and outer layers of the lateral walls of the abdomen
adverb
at a 45 degree angle
To the right oblique, march!
Adjective Middle English oblique, oblike, borrowed from Anglo-French oblic, oblique, borrowed from Latin oblīquus "slanting, transverse," from ob- "against, facing" + -līquus, of uncertain meaning and origin — more at ob- Noun derivative of oblique >entry 1 Adverb derivative of oblique >entry 1
The first known use of oblique was in the 15th century
obliviousadjective
not being conscious or aware oblivious of the crowd
oblivious to the danger
oblivionnoun
the state of forgetting or having forgotten or of being unaware or unconscious
the state of being forgotten
obliterateverb
to remove or destroy completely : wipe out
obliterateverb
to remove or destroy completely : wipe out
obliterateverb
to remove or destroy completely : wipe out
obliterateverb
to remove or destroy completely : wipe out
obliqueadjective
having a slanting direction or position : neither perpendicular nor parallel
having the axis not perpendicular to the base
an oblique cone
having no right angle
an oblique triangle
not straightforward or direct
devious
obliqueadjective
having a slanting direction or position : neither perpendicular nor parallel
having the axis not perpendicular to the base
an oblique cone
having no right angle
an oblique triangle
not straightforward or direct
devious
1 Very obliquely we learn that Germain's given name is Claude, and that he himself is the author of an unsuccessful novel and haunted by its failure.
2 And so, against my nature, I learned how to communicate obliquely.
3 And then for the capper, she released a clumsy trio of videos on YouTube in which she referred obliquely to “hurtful language” and said, “I beg your forgiveness.”
4 But they are represented obliquely, and we get repeated examples of structures presented in a state of what might be called postmodern contingency.
5 That said, TV, like dreams, can speak more obliquely.
由此说来,电视像梦想,可以表达得更婉转。
6 Keys seemed to obliquely allude to those issues — and more — in a speech and piano medley near the start of the show.
7 What follows in the next 14 or so minutes are gently hovering, sometimes layered and obliquely angled images of windows and reflections, as well as more flowers and trees.
8 In his own statement, Mr. Tambor referred obliquely to his own sense of discomfort with what was happening on “Transparent,” saying that a “politicized atmosphere” had afflicted the set.
9 As if that didn't suffice, he's diagnosed with terminal cancer and finds himself obliquely responsible for a terrible tragedy plucked from the newspaper headlines.
10 To secure ( beams ) with obliquely driven nails.
斜钉钉牢斜向钉入钉子固定 ( 横梁 )
11 Over seven seasons, “Mad Men,” which concludes its run on Sunday night, documented a politically uproarious period in American history while in many regards remaining only obliquely political and rarely if ever overtly partisan.
12 There’s a suggestion that the end might be nigh in “Another Earth,” one of a large number of movies that, obliquely or directly, solemnly and sometimes irreverently, took on questions of faith.
13 His latest release, Demolition, comes at the question obliquely.
14 Lee’s recent focus has been holes, which also obliquely speaks to a desire for communion and exchange.
15 She’s singing, obliquely, about not wanting to take privilege for granted — “I wear a crown/with my head down” — and dancing on a rooftop with two darker-skinned men.
16 The melding of memoir and artifice called autofiction; the fondness for fragments; the evasive, obliquely wounded female narrator; the excavations into trauma, addiction, maternity.
17 “Children of Hiroshima” is of interest partly because it is among the first films to address a subject that would preoccupy, both directly and obliquely, so much of postwar Japanese cinema.
18 Visually and sonically hypnotic, it’s an intensely sensory blend of internal monologue and unsettling mystery, draped over a thin skeleton of plot approached so obliquely that it seems almost inconsequential.
19 Those collections have nodded obliquely to rehab chic, to his fabled ode to grunge in the early 1990s and to post-Weimar Berlin.
20 From there, the circles of hell serve as ready-made divertissements, characterful episodes that conjure, however obliquely, the poetic justice delivered to Dante’s sinners.