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floor-length

/flawr-lengkth, -length, flohr-/US // ˈflɔrˌlɛŋkθ, -ˌlɛŋθ, ˈfloʊr- //

落地长,落地,落地式,落地生根

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extending to the floor: a floor-length skirt.

Examples

  • To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.

  • It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

  • When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.

  • Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

  • Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

  • The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.

  • These sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.

  • Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.