swaybacked如何读

英:['sweɪbækt]

美:['sweɪˌbækt]

swaybacked是什么意思

  • adj.背凹了的;弄伤了背的

swaybacked英英释义

adjective

having an abnormally hollow or sagging back

On occasion, the cow shared the pasture with a swaybacked horse.—Wright Morris

having or marked by abnormal forward curvature of the lumbar and cervical regions of the spine swaybacked posture

… she stood upright, slightly swaybacked, affecting the bored look of a woman waiting for a bus.—Austin Murphy

marked by a sagging appearance : having or being a part with a concave center

Behind the house was a collection of sheds and swaybacked barns …—Alec Wilkinson

swaybacked词源英文解释

The first known use of swaybacked was in 1680

swaybacked儿童词典英英释义

sway1 of 2noun

the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed

a bending or twisting caused by or as if by swaying

controlling force or influence : rule

sway2 of 2verb

to swing or cause to swing slowly back and forth

to move gently from an upright to a leaning position

to change often between one point, position, or opinion and another

to have a strong influence upon

swaybackedadjective

having an unusually sagging back

a swaybacked mare

swaybacked 例句

1 As we approached the tacky little swaybacked ranch-house, he opened his eyes.

2 Driver, paunchy and swaybacked, is the very model of a modern middle-aged professor, his intellectual curiosity muffled by a certain complacency.

3 There’s Jethro, a “big buffoon” with a heart condition and spinal spondylitis that leaves him swaybacked and crooked as he heads to gum at a chew toy in the play yard.

4 Howard found himself slipping down the Road to Hell and drifting into that exuberant, swaybacked little town.

5 It was white, with two rooms and a swaybacked roof.

6 Farther out there was a low swaybacked house that had to be a reconstruction of a Viking dwelling.

7 A host of wonderfully lumpy animals includes a swaybacked cow, a slinky cat, a perky horse and a perturbed elephant.

8 Marys Peak is this long, swaybacked mountain in the Coast Range near Corvallis, Oregon.

9 He is pear-shaped and swaybacked, rumpled and shambling, his body as indifferently maintained as an old jalopy.

10 Instead, a broken window illuminates a swaybacked bed.

11 A swaybacked roof side by side with an austere perpendicular brick building: so beautiful.

12 Short and swaybacked, with little triangular eyes in a fat, flat face, he was an odd match with Yegey, all delicacy and bone.

13 The parlour had once been two rooms, and the floor was swaybacked where the partition had been cut away.

14 More alarming was the emaciated child, a boy of maybe 7, standing only a few feet away from me, naked but for a pair of shorts, swaybacked and wide-eyed and looking like he might scream.

15 But in these too-quiet landscapes there’s something awry, like in the early moments of a horror movie: there are swaybacked fences stitched through thick brush, caved-in roofs, woods-swallowed shacks, children carousing in malignantly yellow water.

16 Other McDonagh hallmarks include a breakneck, swaybacked plot, by turns hilarious and grim, painted over with a nearly invisible varnish of sentimentality.

17 Affecting a swaybacked fashion pose, he added: “Some of us have a hard exterior. But underneath that, we are really fragile. Bill knew that dress is the way we express ourselves.”

18 The earth moved, and a swaybacked giant jogged into view.

19 To get to the shed, you have to traverse a mud puddle on a couple of swaybacked two-by-fours.

20 Veeck pushed a record 2.6 million customers into Cleveland Stadium with an avalanche of promotions: fireworks, clowns, door prizes and gag gifts for “lucky” fans, such as a keg of nails or a swaybacked horse.

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