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outward-bound

/out-werd-bound/US // ˈaʊt wərdˈbaʊnd //

外向型,外向型的,外向的,外游

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.

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Examples

  • Outdoor-education programs like Outward Bound, which can cost thousands of dollars, saw a surge in demand over the past year.

  • That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

  • They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.

  • Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.

  • From 2012 to 2013, 31 men left Aarhus bound for combat in Syria.

  • That is bound to put a dent in public confidence in the police.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • He saw with evident pleasure the outward and visible signs of the old earl's immense wealth.

  • She was not accustomed to an outward and spoken expression of affection, either in herself or in others.

  • A good many children seem to be like savages in distinguishing those to whom one is bound to speak the truth.