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brought-on

/brawt-on, -awn/US // ˈbrɔtˈɒn, -ˈɔn //

带来的,带来了,带上,所带来的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Chiefly South Midland U.S.

    • : made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
    • : not belonging to the community; outside: They hired themselves a brought-on man from Michigan.

Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

  • The boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.

  • The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.

  • Under so many savage blows, the labouring mountains brought forth Turks.

  • Then Paterno adroitly brought matters to a crisis in a bold peroration which changed the whole scene.

  • There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.