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one-legged

/wuhn-legd, -leg-id/US // ˈwʌnˈlɛgd, -ˈlɛg ɪd //

独腿的,独脚的,独腿,单腿的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having only one leg.
    • : one-sided, as an argument or point of view.
    • : ineffectual because certain basic elements, measures, etc., are lacking: one-legged legislation.

Examples

  • Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.

  • The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.

  • Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

  • Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

  • Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.