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couching

/kou-ching/US // ˈkaʊ tʃɪŋ //UK // (ˈkaʊtʃɪŋ) //

榻榻米,抚摸,抚慰,卧底

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that couches.
    • : a method of embroidering in which a thread, often heavy, laid upon the surface of the material, is caught down at intervals by stitches taken with another thread through the material.
    • : work so made.

Examples

  • The Times, carefully couching its words, said it spoke with Lohan about a “potential appearance” in Speed-the-Plow.

  • Israel must stop couching the nuclear issue in apocalyptic terms and adopt a more pragmatic approach.

  • Rabbah of Ammon was to become, "A stable for camels and couching place for flocks" (Ezekiel xxv, 5).

  • It has a lion's body, in a couching posture, with the head and face of a Nubian female, and is of most enormous dimensions.

  • In his old age he was blinded by cataract, but recovered his eyesight by the operation of couching.

  • There we laid the beauty across the feet of the princess, her fore-paws outstretched, and her head couching between them.

  • He sat there until the couching sun brought long, thin shadows and a false promise of coolness.