ninepins
/nahyn-pinz/US // ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz //UK // (ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz) //
九针,九品芝麻官,九头鸟,九指山
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : tenpins played without the head pin.
- : ninepin, a pin used in this game.
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Examples
The result was rather bad for the Turks; they went down like a lot of ninepins before Mole's railway-like progression.
Three Brazilians went down like ninepins; the rest turned and fled precipitately.
Tom Richardson, the last man in for England, made sixty-two, while some who shall be nameless went down like ninepins in the van.
Russian fortresses continued for another month to fall like ninepins before the Austro-German armies.
To quote one of our Fusiliers, "they fell like ninepins" at each discharge.
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