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drag on

/drag-uhn/US // ˈdræg ən //UK // (ˈdræɡən) //

拖着,拖动,拖着走,拖着不走

Related Words

basilisk玄武岩,玄武门,玄武湖hydra水蛇,水螅,水龙,水蛇阵tarragon龙蒿,龙蒿草,蒿草,龙须菜wyvern狼牙棒,狼人,狼獾,狼牙山

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
    • : Archaic. a huge serpent or snake.
    • : Bible. a large animal, possibly a large snake or crocodile.
    • : the dragon, Satan.
    • : a fierce, violent person.
    • : a very watchful and strict woman; duenna.
    • : flying dragon.
    • : Botany. any of several araceous plants, as Arisaema dracontium, the flowers of which have a long, slender spadix and a green, shorter spathe.
    • : a short musket carried by a mounted infantryman in the 16th and 17th centuries.
    • : a soldier armed with such a musket.See also dragoon.
    • : Astronomy. the constellation Draco.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbextend time of action
Synonyms
continue继续,继续说,延续,继续进行draw out拔出,抽出,拉出,引出endure经受住了,忍受,忍耐,忍受着extend延伸,延长,扩展,延续go on slowly缓行,缓慢地进行下去,缓缓进行,缓慢进行keep going继续前进,继续,继续走,继续努力lengthen加长,拉长,延长,拖长persist坚守,坚持不懈,坚持,执着prolong延长,延续,延展,延长时间protract旷日持久,拖延时间,延长时间,延长spin out转出,转出去,转出的,转发stretch out延展,伸开,伸长,伸手

Examples

  • One of the Higher Education Act’s architects lamented that the Guaranteed Student Loan Program quickly became a “fund-eating dragon.”

  • Kathryn set up where the natural light was brightest in her Petworth apartment, put on jeans and “a super cozy alpaca sweater that feels like a hug,” and ordered emperor’s dragon noodles and a gimlet-style cocktail from Tiger Fork in Shaw.

  • It feels like unfolding an elaborate piece of origami step by step, a sequence of secret creases that show how easily a humming bird or dragon can become an ordinary piece of paper again.

  • Shai Meiri, a herpetologist at Tel Aviv University, has previously shown that many dragon lizards live in small, hard-to-access areas, making the reptiles difficult to study.

  • After the encounter, he recovered the famed sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and also won the hand of the woman who he saved from the dragon.

  • How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.

  • In one picture, his head gets ripped off by a blue dragon; in another, he is the blue dragon.

  • Screen-filling enemies like the aforementioned dragon come early and they come often.

  • Look at The Killing, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, all of these Scandinavian things with female investigators.

  • Consider a song like “Crayon” by G-Dragon, a member of the boy band Big Bang.

  • They would never connive at this second sowing of the dragon's teeth of Cadmus.

  • Aristide darted off like a dragon-fly in the sunshine, as happy as a child with a new toy.

  • Now an automobile was a marvellous dragon for Rosemary, and she could never see too many for her pleasure.

  • It was a dragon-fly personally conducting two moles through a rose-garden.

  • The dragon tree is the slowest of growth among vegetables; it seems also to be slowest in decay.

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