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axel

/ak-suhl/US // ˈæk səl //UK // (ˈæksəl) //

斧头,斧子,轴心,车轴

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Figure Skating.

    • : a jump performed by a skater leaping from the front outer edge of one skate into the air to make 1½ rotations of the body and landing on the back outer edge of the other skate.

Examples

  • After looking at the various possibilities, I went to the Axel lab at Columbia.

  • Four prisoners, Axel and Oscar (who turned out to be good guys) and Tomas and Andrew (thugs), all died as well.

  • How did Obama pull off this political equivalent of a triple axel?

  • Is an Adrian or an Austin more likely to be sensitive; an Axel more of a renegade; an Andrew more of an old-fashioned guy?

  • From Axel Olrik, though my debt to him is heavy, I find myself differing on several questions.

  • And she seemed to like Sir Axel's company—as, indeed, most people would.

  • But Sir Axel and his assiduity enhanced her value and buttressed her independence.

  • Now Axel Martini had taken part in the “May-combat” this year, and had come off victorious.

  • Something tells me that things won't be right between Axel and me again.