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eyebrow

/ahy-brou/US // ˈaɪˌbraʊ //UK // (ˈaɪˌbraʊ) //

眉毛,眉头,眉心,眉目

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the arch or ridge forming the upper part of the orbit of the eye.
    • : the fringe of hair growing on this arch or ridge.
    • : a dormer having a roof that is an upwardly curved continuation of the main roof plane.
    • : Printing, Journalism. kicker.
    • : Nautical. a curved molding protecting a port from falling or dripping water.

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Examples

  • “When I talk to people about the show, their eyebrows raise, but every single new person I talk to has a personal story, idea, or fresh interpretation.”

  • She meticulously manages the shape of her eyebrows and is well-groomed otherwise.

  • A young Saeedah and her father have eyebrows “set high above their eyes, so they looked skeptical or like they were laughing at a joke no one else understood.”

  • Any method that could give Google even more control over the ad process has advertisers, publishers and ad tech firms raising eyebrows.

  • Clean eating is such a common phrase that it might not raise an eyebrow, but it’s problematic, too.

  • The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.

  • It barely raised an eyebrow, perhaps because many assumed it was yet another iteration of the same old pipedream.

  • Brash, crass, and sporting a perpetually raised eyebrow, Ash Williams remains the ultimate postmodern superhero.

  • In any other civilized nation this effort at some kind of summer escape would barely raise an eyebrow.

  • All the while, his father continues to make headlines with his every eyebrow-raising utterance.

  • Mr. Wilding raised one eyebrow and looked aslant at Trenchard, whose weather-beaten face was suddenly agrin with stupefaction.

  • He received what she said with suitably impressed eyebrow and nods of considerate assent.

  • The nurse brought her sal volatile, and washed the small cut above her eyebrow.

  • Barker dodged, but the edge of it cut open his eyebrow as it whizzed by, and the blood flowed fast.

  • The first marked Silver Jack's bronze-red face just to the left of his white eyebrow.