Roll

(noun.) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling).

(noun.) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude.

(noun.) walking with a swaying gait.

(noun.) anything rolled up in cylindrical form.

(noun.) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light.

(noun.) a list of names; 'his name was struck off the rolls'.

(verb.) execute a roll, in tumbling; 'The gymnasts rolled and jumped'.

(verb.) show certain properties when being rolled; 'The carpet rolls unevenly'; 'dried-out tobacco rolls badly'.

(verb.) take the shape of a roll or cylinder; 'the carpet rolled out'; 'Yarn rolls well'.

(verb.) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; 'She rolls her r's'.

(verb.) begin operating or running; 'The cameras were rolling'; 'The presses are already rolling'.

(verb.) move by turning over or rotating; 'The child rolled down the hill'; 'turn over on your left side'.

(verb.) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; 'The gypsies roamed the woods'; 'roving vagabonds'; 'the wandering Jew'; 'The cattle roam across the prairie'; 'the laborers drift from one town to the next'; 'They rolled from town to town'.

(verb.) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; 'The thunder rolled'; 'rolling drums'.

(verb.) occur in soft rounded shapes; 'The hills rolled past'.

(verb.) shape by rolling; 'roll a cigarette'.

(verb.) move, rock, or sway from side to side; 'The ship rolled on the heavy seas'.

(verb.) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; 'She rolled the ball'; 'They rolled their eyes at his words' .

(verb.) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; 'The curtains undulated'; 'the waves rolled towards the beach'.

录入:玛丽

• After spelling it out slowly, the man made it into a little roll, and tied it up in an end of his neckerchief still more slowly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The purpose is to take care of the misdirected balls that roll off the bed before reaching the pit. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now, said the woman, when she had raised his head on a roll of damaged cotton, which served for a pillow, there's the best I can do for you. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Plante coiled up his sheets into a very handy cell like a little roll of carpet or pastry; but the trouble was that the battery took a long time to form. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and having no room in my pockets, walked off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• She runs to the pantry for a roll, and she stands on the door step scattering crumbs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Roll up the shirt-sleeve on your left arm, and you will see it there. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr. Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Tears rolled silently down Rosamond's cheeks; she just pressed her handkerchief against them, and stood looking at the large vase on the mantel-piece. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Piani picked up Aymo's cap where it had rolled down the embankment and put it over his face. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Brian de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the field, encumbered with the stirrup, from which he was unable to draw his foot. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• A weight rolled off her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• His loose eyes rolled frightfully--not in terror, but in exultation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• What we call the rolling of thunder is really the reflection and re-reflection of the original thunder from cloud and cliff. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The Earl had procured a pair of horses somehow, in spite of Mrs. Crawley, and was rolling on the road to Ghent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Struggling and shrieking, his body, rolling from side to side, moved quickly toward the shadows beneath the trees. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Here Mr. Guppy's mother fell into an extraordinary passion of rolling her head and smiling waggishly at anybody who would look at her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I turned down the clothes'; continued Giles, rolling back the table-cloth, 'sat up in bed; and listened. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Had there been presses, they would have had to stand idle while the papyrus rolls were slowly made. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Suppose that some one rolls a ball to a child; he catches it and rolls it back, and the game goes on. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This machine, see Fig. 168, receives the dough at A, where it is coated with flour and flattened into a sheet between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In operation the material passed first through the upper and middle rolls, and then between the middle and lowest rolls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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