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garden path

/gahr-dn-path, -pahth/US // ˈgɑr dnˌpæθ, -ˌpɑθ //

园路,花园路,花园小路,花园小径

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

  • The anti-crime cops began searching the likely path of flight.

  • Senhor José remains stationary, but this lengthy series of clauses propels the reader along an unmarked path.

  • But they had not quit and here they now were as the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums came into the Garden.

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

  • Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.

  • It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.

  • Of course it is only the hardiest Ferns which can be expected to grow well in the town garden.

  • In such conditions many kinds which do not flourish very freely in the open garden, grow into handsome specimens.