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acrobat

/ak-ruh-bat/US // ˈæk rəˌbæt //UK // (ˈækrəˌbæt) //

杂技演员,杂技团,杂技师,杂技人员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a skilled performer of gymnastic feats, as walking on a tightrope or swinging on a trapeze.
    • : a person who readily changes viewpoints or opinions.

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Examples

  • With the lights of the Coco Bongo disco illuminating the night sky, tourists dance in open-air clubs while acrobats twirl above them, raining glitter down on a packed and maskless crowd.

  • His skills as an acrobat were his ticket out of his impoverished circumstances.

  • Acrobat death In 2004, Dessi Espana, a performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey, fell 35 feet during a performance.

  • The acrobat was twirling during her performance, suspended by a chiffon scarf.

  • Everybody in her class was either a potential Van Gogh or an acrobat.

  • Leaning against the bar, the Chinese acrobat looks weary, though he says none of the tricks are difficult for him anymore.

  • There is simply no way to compete against a 66-year-old actress dangling daringly off the arm of a muscular acrobat.

  • Of no more than medium height but with shoulders like an acrobat, he had slim, straight legs and the feet of a dancing master.

  • Shoeblossom leaped back with a readiness highly creditable in one who was not a professional acrobat.

  • Starcus proved that the rest of his limbs were uninjured by coming as nimbly as an acrobat to an upright posture.

  • Balancing on his hands like an acrobat, he crawled over the edge, down to the main deck, and began to explore forward.

  • It is strange to see a quiet-looking shell suddenly take to hopping and jumping like an acrobat.