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hang on

/hang-on, -awn/US // ˈhæŋˌɒn, -ˌɔn //

撑住,撑着,悬挂,坚持住

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something easily attached to or mounted on another surface or object, as a turbocharger or transceiver in an automobile, a unit suspendable from shelving, or a portable soap dish.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or denoting such an attachment: A clumsy hang-on unit supplied the air conditioning.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • It'll be beastly dull for her at The Warren, you see, poor girl; and she doesn't seem to jump at Spunyarn, though he does hang on.

  • Perhaps you will understand now that you ought to have asked my business ere you proposed to hang me off hand.

  • These form one of the many island groups that hang like a fringe or festoon on the skirt of the continent of Asia.

  • I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

  • The chair rests upon two long poles, which hang by straps upon the shoulders of four stout men.