elliptical

1 Minimalist chairs and elliptical dinnerware are the work of local designers.

2 “I identify and respond to a very untrained and primitive eye,” she says, pointing to recurring symbols, like arrowheads and ancient elliptical shapes, that appear organically in her recent work.

3 An elliptical space paneled in dark-stained wood, it feels almost spiritual.

4 If the satellite has an elliptical orbit, the result is a spiral wave, a miniature version of the pinwheel pattern of our galaxy.

如果卫星的轨道是椭圆的，就会产生螺旋波，就像是银河系纸风车形状的缩影。

5 “When creators aimed for more trippy and existential stuff in the 1970s, like Adam Warlock’s nemesis The Magus, who ran an oppressive religious cult,” says Narcisse, “any commentary was more elliptical.”

6 Strolling north, we glimpsed the white cube that will host basketball games and the elliptical, wood-clad velodrome by Hopkins Architects nicknamed the “Pringle.”

7 Clean Break Is Increasingly Hard to Make The anxiety that infuses the elliptical family drama “Aliyah” is underscored by Schoenberg’s feverish, brooding “Verklärte Nacht.”

8 But the elliptical, involuted “Almayer’s Folly” is less about this melodramatic plotting of forbidden love than about being trapped in a state of mind.

9 All of her writing is like this: short, fragmentary, and elliptical.

10 The story of an Irish family, it is the kind of book that refuses quick characterization: it is sprawling and intimate, anguished and hopeful, elliptical and intensely observed.

11 This playful hard-bop classic from Jimmy Heath is usually taken at a medium-fast tempo, with the song’s jerky structure making the musicians feel like they’re playing atop the pedals of an elliptical.

12 Moore has a good ear for the elliptical nature of intimate exchanges: sentences often trail off as if the darkest thoughts remain unspoken.

13 His brother eventually took him to a nearby fitness center, where he learned to use the elliptical.

14 In that time, you could burn more than twice as many calories running, cycling or using an elliptical machine at a moderate intensity.

15 Often, it’s routine — a three-mile run, a spin class, the elliptical with a few rounds on the weight machines at the gym, and we call it good.

16 If the earth had been a flat disk, the shadow would have been elongated and elliptical, unless the eclipse always occurred at a time when the sun was directly under the center of the disk.

17 The abstract artistic language of the choreography and script allows the artists to slip past the literal depictions of the mural into elliptical dance fragments.

18 Have you noticed that The Washington Post has almost entirely done away with the old-fashioned, elliptical “Dog Bites Man” headline style?

19 The small, efficient gym houses a Technogym treadmill, elliptical trainer, stationary bike and more — as well as views of the green spaces nearby — while the adjacent park has a jogging track.

20 What emerges is a kind of forensic examination of Garrett family relations, a look at how their elliptical style of interaction came to be.

1 椭圆

ellipse

2 隐晦

opaque murky Delphic soft-core obscure

3 椭圆形的

oval oblong

4 省略

omission ellipsis clip omit skip elide drop elision understand

5 椭圆形

oval oblong

6 隐晦的

murky Delphic soft-core subtle oracular

7 晦涩

obscure crabbed obscurity diffuse opaque recondite

8 晦涩的

obscure crabbed diffuse opaque recondite