英:[ˈweðə veɪn]
美:[ˈwɛðɚ ven]
英:[ˈweðə veɪn]
美:[ˈwɛðɚ ven]
风标;
风向标
The first known use of weather vane was circa 1721
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1 Sign up The point is not to lionize Haley, whose timidity in the face of Trump has made a weather vane seem like a model of principled constancy.
2 In a sloping backyard in Vallejo, California, Nicholas Spada adjusted a piece of equipment that looked like a cross between a tripod, a briefcase and a weather vane.
3 As part of the celebration marking the return of the Preakness, the colors of the race’s winner were painted onto the ornamental weather vane at Pimlico Racecourse for the first time.
4 Many see the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show as a kind of boat sales weather vane, indicating how the rest of the year will fare. Parker traveled down to the boat show from Jacksonville to find a fishing boat that will suit both him and his wife, who also fishes.
5 Easily assembled out of pine, it can be topped with a weather vane, or coated with protective tung oil instead of paint.
6 The College of William & Mary, Virginia Named for its royal English founders, William & Mary is the second-oldest college in the U.S. after Harvard and is anchored by the brick Wren Building, whose weather vane bears the founding date of 1693.
7 The artwork, essentially a weather vane which was built over a storefront-style mannequin, had to be disassembled in order to be hauled up 60 steps on the extremely narrow staircase in Williams’ post-1906 earthquake, three-story home.
8 Republican donors, a reliable party weather vane, have likewise turned his way.
9 The weather vane points North.
风标指向北。
10 Dream is wings of weather vane of the brave.
梦想是强者的翅膀、梦想是勇者的风标.
11 You who travel with the wind, what weather - vane shall direct your course?
你们是御风而行的人, 还有什么风标能指示你们的方向 呢 ?
12 A weather vane crowns the building.
风标高高地矗立在建筑物的顶上.
13 In winter the weather vane often freezes up.
气象风标在冬季经常僵立不动.
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