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hunched

/huhnch/US // hʌntʃ //UK // (hʌntʃ) //

驼背,弯腰驼背,驼背的,驼着背

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
    • : to shove, push, or jostle.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to thrust oneself forward jerkily; lunge forward.
    • : to stand, sit, or walk in a bent posture.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a premonition or suspicion; guess: I have a hunch he'll run for reelection.
    • : a hump.
    • : a push or shove.
    • : a lump or thick piece.

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Examples

  • We can help quickly if an assistant media planner has a hunch about an audience that might be appropriate for a client.

  • If he’s cheating, if the wife finds out, and if she asks what you know, then you tell the truth — that you had your suspicions but none founded enough to speak up, and would not risk her marriage or anyone’s on a hunch.

  • Solid KPIs keep data at the forefront of your business decision-making instead of relying on hunches or feelings.

  • My hunch was that Housebound, with its fixation on forced intimacy and confinement in too-familiar spaces, would be the perfect aperitif after eight-plus months in quarantine.

  • That’s the hunch Krieger’s been working from ever since her run that night.

  • Her sunny, dimpled smile was betrayed by her hunched, buckled posture.

  • On a recent sweltering Thursday afternoon several founders hunched over a table brainstorming how to do exactly that.

  • A photograph showed Bush hunched over an easel in what appears to be a home gym.

  • I can be hunched over, or push my chest out more and give Caesar strength and physicality.

  • A handful of young staffers lounged on couches or hunched over their computers at makeshift desks.

  • Then she rallied and, like Jake, was ready to do battle with any one who hunched their shoulders at Miss Dory.

  • "You aren't very complimentary to us," Frank grumbled, as he hunched himself over the wheel of Mollie's car.

  • There they were, hunched down under the robe, their heads drawn into their collars like two turtles half asleep on a mud bank.

  • After a bit, he shut up and remained hunched over the wheel, his face as white and stiff as though chiselled from marble.

  • On the contrary the breed of the bison, or hunched ox, occupies all the southern provinces.