backstroke

/bak-strohk/US // ˈbækˌstroʊk //UK // (ˈbækˌstrəʊk) //

仰泳,逆行,游泳,溯源

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a backhanded stroke.
- : Swimming. a stroke made while on one's back.
- : a blow or stroke in return; recoil.

v.无主动词 verb

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back·stroked, back·strok·ing.
- : Swimming. to swim the backstroke: She backstroked across the pool.

Watch her steal the show in the 100-meter backstroke Monday.
A backstroke of Gino's oar, however, soon brought the side of the arrested boat to a flight of steps.
Previously to this, the "backstroke" of the steamboat engine was either unknown or not generally known.
"C" some distance to right of point but on level with "E." The backstroke of the latter nearly touches the point.
After this desperate backstroke, as Warburton justly calls it, Macbeth engages in another combat equally sanguinary.