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dolly

/dol-ee/US // ˈdɒl i //UK // (ˈdɒlɪ) //

多莉,娃娃,娃娃机,锻模

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n.名词 noun
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    plural dol·lies.

    • : Informal. a doll.
    • : a low truck or cart with small wheels for moving loads too heavy to be carried by hand.
    • : Movies, Television. a small wheeled platform, usually having a short boom, on which a camera can be mounted for making moving shots.
    • : Machinery. a tool for receiving and holding the head of a rivet while the other end is being headed.
    • : a block placed on the head of a pile being driven to receive the shock of the blows.
    • : a small locomotive operating on narrow-gauge tracks, especially in quarries, construction sites, etc.
    • : a short, wooden pole with a hollow dishlike base for stirring clothes while laundering them.
    • : Slang. a tablet of Dolophine.
    • : Also called dolly bird .British Informal. an attractive girl or young woman.
    • : Slang. an affectionate or familiar term of address, as to a child or romantic partner.
v.有主动词 verb
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    dol·lied, dol·ly·ing.

    • : to transport or convey by means of a dolly.
v.无主动词 verb
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    dol·lied, dol·ly·ing.

    • : to move a camera on a dolly, especially toward or away from the subject being filmed or televised: to dolly in for a close-up.

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Examples

  • As I loaded up on Dolly swag at one of the many gift shops, the sales attendant engaged me in a charming conversation.

  • Back then the conversation swirled around a little sheep named Dolly.

  • Before Dolly, the thought of cloning a mammal was the stuff of science fiction, but — fast-forward 25 years — it wasn’t the feasibility of genome editing that was in question before He decided to edit human embryos.

  • In one incident, a worker missed 119 days of work after being caught between a container and dolly.

  • “Songteller” hits its stride when it gets to ’70s crossover pop star Dolly.

  • Next came Dolly, after a big sorrel mare; and Paul, after a freckled pinto; and so on down the line.

  • When I credit her for discovering Jennifer Lawrence in casting her as Ree Dolly, she smiles bashfully, before backpedaling a bit.

  • So Sinatra simply chartered Dolly her own Learjet for the twenty-minute flight to Las Vegas.

  • "It is hot and it is ready," says Bernice Michaud, who has been waitressing at Dolly's for over a quarter century.

  • Dolly Parton, although rumored to be heterosexual, certainly has a big place in the gay world.

  • Gilbert was not at all satisfied with the promise Dolly had given to his father; he thought himself slighted and ill-used.

  • I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.

  • This last remark recalled poor Dolly's grief, and she fell to crying worse than before.

  • You had better go to him, Dolly, and bid him good bye, before he takes the team to the field.

  • And the team moved on, and poor Dolly, more ashamed of her errand than ever, went into the house.