siding

1 Did I do anything that could have been interpreted as siding with Erudite?

2 The train ride is a sleepy six-hour epic, every hour their rickety car shunted onto a siding to let trains full of soldiers, headed for the front, hurry past.

3 I dipped in a fat brush and spread the paint along the old clapboard siding in long, smooth strokes.

4 The freight trains on the siding were loaded down with men trying to get from one part of the country to another, looking for work and something to eat.

5 “I’ve been sitting at that table forever. He’s been there two weeks. Why is everyone siding with him?”

6 Nice place—new, beige siding, nice landscaping with mulch.

7 The train, battered like a bruised fighter, hissed in the sidings.

8 Harry was angry with the other two for siding with McGonagall; nevertheless, he felt compelled to join in once they started discussing what had happened.

9 “I got a piece here that I cut out of a newspaper. The editor put it just right. He gives Washington a good going-over for not siding with France.”

10 In common notation, the siding of needle blade is used as the standard machine number.

普通写法以针叶边宽为标准,对应机号.

11 Have kiloton class berth 11, have railroad industrial siding 6.

有千吨级泊位11个, 有铁路专用线6股.

12 Even the jaded horsemen would take a respite from their labors to see him, eating their breakfasts outdoors on the benches near the siding.

13 The Oasis is an old boat, not built for passengers but for small industry, its hull rusted and its wooden siding peeling off of stripped nails.

14 Abdl Khadr explains his delay in openly siding with the opposition.

阿布多·卡德尔解释了他延迟公开支持反对派的原因。

15 Another thing it did was stop on sidings near prisons, leaving a few cars there.

16 It looked abandoned, its clapboard siding faded to splintery gray.

17 Sometimes, an oncoming train forces the engineer to pull off onto a siding.

18 It occurred to me she didn’t want the expedition side-tracked and was reluctantly siding with me, so I smiled at her, but she didn’t return my look.

19 Uncle Al had the good fortune to be in the vicinity and was able to score a sleeping car and two flats for a song from railroad officials desperate to free up their siding.

20 Gaps in the siding revealed black tar paper, like decay between haphazard teeth.

1 侧线

lie-by switch shunt gridiron lay-by sidetrack lateral line

2 挡板

shield skirt baffle damper

3 岔道

crossing turnoff sidetrack crossover

4 壁板

wainscoting wainscot

5 偏袒

respective partial favor preference bias favoritism partiality lean acceptance of respect of respect favour favouritism side tilt enlist stand-in ex parte

6 附和

sequacious assentation second side

7 旁轨

sidetrack lay-by

8 墙板

shingle wallboard

9 环线

circuit beltway

10 支持

sustentative supportive proponent sustaining support maintenance championship backup favor behalf holding favour crutch countenance sustenance espousal sustentation side root endure enlist plunk underset back second hold stay carry encourage bear sustain prop sanction uphold strut underpin pedestal persevere buttress backstop sinew uprear underprop