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daisy-chain

菊花链,菊花链式,菊花链式的,菊花串

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a string of daisies linked together to form a chain.
    • : such a chain used as a garland or carried on festive days by a group of women college students.
    • : a series of interconnected or related things or events: a daisy chain of legislative delays and stalemates.
    • : Slang. a group sexual activity in which the participants serve as active and passive partners to different people simultaneously.
    • : Commerce. a series of transactions designed to create the appearance of active trading, as in a particular stock, in order to manipulate the price.

Examples

  • You expect soldiers of all ranks to understand the need to respect the chain of command, regardless of personal feelings.

  • Say what you want about Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F), the chain has done something special.

  • After the scanning takes place, KSM is led down a long corridor flanked by chain-link fences.

  • Elderly women played Triple Double Diamond and Tiki Magic while they chain-smoked.

  • So while mourning the closing of De Robertis, consider that we might someday mourn the bankruptcy of whatever chain replaces it.

  • She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?

  • Then he closed the spring with a snap, and she let him pass the chain over her hand once more.

  • You would think the poor teacher would be driven crazy, but he seems as calm as a daisy in a June breeze.

  • From the ceiling, which was divided into compartments painted in dark red and blue, hung a heavy lamp by a chain of gilded silver.

  • An amount of slack in the chain caused the balls to knock on passing this roller before entering the pump bottom.