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engirdle

/en-gur-dl/US // ɛnˈgɜr dl //

镌刻,镌汰,镌刻的,困扰

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    en·gir·dled, en·gir·dling.

    • : to engird.

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Examples

  • Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?

  • If it is left till then, one can only engirdle the whole thing with a soft tarred rope and sling it up somehow or anyhow.

  • If you choose, plant the foot of the ladder in a fiery test and engirdle each round with a forest of thorns.

  • Whom seekest thou, where unclomb rocks engirdle Peace, smiling peace?

  • Then I beheld, spread out before me, the greater part of Greece, together with the countless islands that engirdle it.