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knee-sprung

/nee-spruhng/US // ˈniˌsprʌŋ //

膝部支撑,膝部支柱,膝上型弹簧,膝关节

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Veterinary Pathology.

    • : having a forward bowing of the knee caused by shortening of the flexor tendons.

Examples

  • Do you think of power suits for men and knee-covering skirts for women?

  • Like a Jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly.

  • It is not a knee-jerk response to a sudden perceived threat.

  • This whole thing about a black-and-white culture of knee-jerk reactions is reinforced by television.

  • He started Spinal Solutions in 1999 and launched a firm selling knee and hip implants three years later.

  • That his friend had withdrawn, was a pledge of his pacific wishes; and, with a lightened countenance, Louis rose from his knee.

  • There are a dozen other "adult schools" in the town which have sprung from Severn Street.

  • To drop on one knee and level his piece was the work of an instant, but unfortunately he snapped a dry twig in doing so.

  • Her left knee was supported on pillows, and the bed-clothes were raised away from it, for it could tolerate no weight whatever.

  • Scarcely had he smoothed the way with one opponent than another sprung up in an unexpected quarter.