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guest-rope

/gest-rohp/US // ˈgɛstˌroʊp //

客串串联,客串,客套话,客串演出

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : a rope suspended from the side of a vessel or a boom as an object to which other vessels can moor, or to afford a hold for persons in such vessels.
    • : a line sent out from a vessel to a fixed object or a buoy or anchor to help the vessel in warping.
    • : a line, in addition to the towrope, to steady a boat in tow.

Examples

  • And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.

  • Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

  • She tugged on the black rope that wrapped around his thighs and torso, her leather gloves creaking with each adjustment.

  • “I like decorating my slaves,” she said, referencing the rope, her thin, crimson-coated lips peeling off her front teeth.

  • Despite an impressive celebrity guest-list and the extraordinary garments on show, the event failed to make newspaper front pages.

  • It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!

  • Once the rope got tangled around Squinty's foot, and he jumped over it to get free.

  • All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.

  • I never dare venture over except as the guest of some more fortunate friend.

  • Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.