Winding

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind

(n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.

(a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.

(n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.

(n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.

整理:纳特

• It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding stair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The walls are 15 feet thick at the base, and 18 inches at the top, and its summit is reached by an internal winding staircase and a central elevator. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The different parts of these are called the tube, jacket, hoops, locking rings, trunnion rings, wire winding, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his intentions, hurried to the winding runway which led to the floors below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• After winding along it for more than a mile, they reached their own house. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This bar-clasp could be moved backward and forward on a rod as the spinner’s hand would do when stretching the thread and winding it on. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The applications of wire ropes are very numerous, an important one being for winding and hauling purposes in mines. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• That grief over which I had lately been weeping, as I wrapped it in its winding-sheetmust be interred. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• It avoided the continuous stretch on the thread of the jenny by first completing the thread and then winding it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When you go winding round and round me, says the trooper, putting his pipe between his lips again, damme, if I don't feel as if I was being smothered! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Winding through the hollow, he passed the Grammar School, and came to Willey Green Church. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Shunt and series field-windings were added to the motor, and the series windings could be plugged in and out of circuit as desired. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The blow broke the glass carboy, and the acid ran down upon the field magnets of the dynamo, destroying the windings of one of the twelve magnets. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Owing to the necessary windings of his course his back was at present towards them. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• My senses were overpowered, and I scarcely regretted my stern guide, when the windings of the mountain concealed him from my sight. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• After following the muddy windings of the lane for ten minutes or more, I saw a cottage with a light in one of the windows. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The Sergeant stood with his face set towards a gap in the trees, commanding a view of one of the windings of the drive which led from the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The real political genius stands between the actual life of men, their wishes and their needs, and all the windings of official caste and professional snobbery. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Vholes knows all their windings and turnings, and we are upon them everywhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This must not be, if the clue that leads through the windings of the story is to remain from end to end untangled in my hands. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Guided by a slight clue, I followed the windings of the Rhone, but vainly. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• How little I knew then of the windings of the labyrinths which were still to mislead me! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We need not follow the windings of the truce and the treaty that finally extended the rule of the Prophet to Mecca. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The din was on the causeway: a horse was coming; the windings of the lane yet hid it, but it approached. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

校对:拉里