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erected

/ih-rekt/US // ɪˈrɛkt //UK // (ɪˈrɛkt) //

竖立,竖立的,竖起来的,竖立起来的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : upright in position or posture: to stand or sit erect.
    • : raised or directed upward: a dog with ears erect.
    • : Botany. vertical throughout; not spreading or declined: an erect stem; an erect leaf or ovule.
    • : Heraldry. represented palewise: a sword erect. represented upright: a boar's head erect.
    • : Optics. having the same position as the object; not inverted.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to build; construct; raise: to erect a house.
    • : to raise and set in an upright or vertical position: to erect a telegraph pole.
    • : to set up or establish, as an institution; found.
    • : to bring about; cause to come into existence: to erect barriers to progress.
    • : Geometry. to draw or construct upon a given line, base, or the like.
    • : to form or create legally: to erect a territory into a state.
    • : Optics. to change to the normal position.
    • : Machinery. to assemble; make ready for use.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become erect; stand up or out.

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Examples

  • Opposition is building against San Diego’s dream of erecting a $5 billion pipeline to the Colorado River in the name of resource independence.

  • Publishers will encourage users to opt-in through engaging content and other special access, while other publishers will erect paywalls.

  • Haunted by Russia’s brazen effort to meddle in the last election, federal and state officials have erected what they believe are formidable barriers to thwart cyber-attacks ahead of Tuesday’s presidential vote.

  • Grocery stores, salons, restaurants, nursing homes, and even offices across the country have newfound use for plexiglass, erecting transparent barriers between groups of people as a preventative measure against the coronavirus.

  • However, the optics of erecting the enclosures to distance wealthy diners from homeless people in the neighborhood did not sit well with many advocates in the city.

  • Exactly one month after the first straw goat was erected in Gävle, it was mysteriously burned to a crisp.

  • The glass-enclosed elevator that I take shows another building being erected, with a great derrick and all.

  • Other buildings have since been erected and then torn down or sold.

  • Nearby, the Hamas deputy information minister, Ehab al Hussain, sits in a memorial tent erected for those killed in the fighting.

  • The prohibition was erected for good reason:  to prevent the religious wars that wracked Europe in the previous century.

  • Close to the wagon in which our hero lay the natives had erected a temporary hut of grass, about six feet high.

  • A vast number are now being erected, and no other engine is erected where these are known.

  • I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.

  • The last engine I erected was about three weeks since, for a farmer that kept four horses and two drivers.

  • In the spring of the following year a somewhat similar engine was erected in London.