英:['fleksaɪl]
美:['flekˌsɪl]
英:['fleksaɪl]
美:['flekˌsɪl]
adj.
易弯曲的
柔韧的
灵活的
可变通的
Adjective
1. able to flex; able to bend easily;
"slim flexible birches"
能屈的:同flexible
borrowed from Latin flexilis, from flectere "to cause to go in a different direction, bend, curve" (of uncertain origin) + -tilis "subject to, susceptible to (the action of the verb)"
The first known use of flexile was in 1613
1 These poems are exceedingly sweet and touching; yet they are all marked by the same flexile use of difficult rhythms and unprecedented rhymes.
2 As the flexile hose has to be stiffly distended to bear an aqueous gravity of twenty-five to fifty pounds to the square inch, the force of the current can be estimated.
3 Of fishes in my net I dragg'd; and now, “Plac'd on a rock, I with my flexile rod “Guided the line.
4 But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.
5 Her motions were listless and languid, but flexile as a willow.
6 Beside him spreading elms, His friendly barrier from th’ invading north, Contrast their shields defensive with the willow Whose flexile drapery sweeps his rustic lawn.
7 Who knows now, but that flexile gracefulness, however questionable at the time of that thirtieth boy of yours, might have been the silky husk of the most solid qualities of maturity.
8 From their flexile and unformed minds I can carve out my fittest tools.
9 The members of the genus fall naturally into three general groups:— First—The Globe Tulips, which have flexile stems, sub-globose, nodding flowers, and nodding capsules.
10 The flexile and dubious expression of youth was forever gone.
11 “Soft grow her limbs, and flexile seem her bones; “Her nails their hardness lose.
12 Snowy linen, touches of soft color, graceful lines of bust and side, the slender fingers that could almost speak, so beautifully flexile were they.
13 As they gathered their soft dresses about their limbs and stooped to enter the door, the flexile line of waist and hip and thigh came out beautifully, modestly.
14 He came up to me, as if knowing his benefactor by instinct, looking curiously about him, and curling and retracting his flexile snout and lip, after the manner of his kind.
15 Smitten with singing from thy mother's east, And murmurous with music not their own: Nay, the lips flexile, while the mind alone A passionless statue stands.
16 With a sudden flexile turn of a wrist that had thrown many a reata, he flung it straight through the open window.
17 The flexile vermicelli often takes sodium alginate as additive . 2.
柔韧的粉丝在生产过程中也常以海藻酸钠作添加剂.
18 Goneril blushed; her hat had slipped back and showed her short brown curls of hair, strong, regular, features, and flexile scarlet mouth, laughing upwards like a faun's.
19 I would not change this flexile, warm existence, Though swept by storms, and shocked by Jove's dread thunder, To be a king beneath the dark-green waters.
20 A man of the world, with experiences, and in his quality, no doubt, the logical, inevitable result of such experiences—one with a conscience flexile and seeking, but hard as rock when once satisfied.