pendulum 的定义
- a body so suspended from a fixed point as to move to and fro by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- Horology. a swinging lever, weighted at the lower end, for regulating the speed of a clock mechanism.
- something that tends to move from one position, condition, etc., to the opposite extreme and then back again: In a democratic society, the pendulum of political thought swings left and right.
pendulum 近义词
等同于 weight
等同于 timepiece
等同于 clock
更多pendulum例句
- Over the decades, the pendulum has swung back and forth between more decentralized and more coordinated models of the economy, each time expecting a different result.
- Elections have swung back and forth in an almost predictable pendulum fashion since 1992 — unified control of one party, divided government, unified control of the other party, and so forth, over and over.
- In the past four months, talk of reform and proposed structural changes to combat racism at agencies has started to shift the pendulum — but more action is required.
- Snails with coiled or elongated shells tended to swim straight up, and to sink straight down whenever they stopped flapping, their shells hanging like pendulums beneath their wings.
- As the pendulum swings away from data-heavy, third-party based audience targeting, publishers are using contextual data tools in smarter ways and gaining more control over their contextual ad revenues.
- But gerrymandering has cold cocked the pendulum weight, stopped it dead.
- The pendulum swing between moods and tone, however, became a staple of the shoot.
- I think the pendulum has swung back on that because of books like The Blood Telegram.
- The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction from physician paternalism towards willful ignorance by patients.
- Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.
- By what word is the relation between “pendulum” and “a smile and tear” described?
- The sword clattered from his hand and rolled, with a pendulum-like movement, to the feet of Garnache.
- To swing a pendulum, picked out from a number of them at random, without touching it is a very puzzling trick.
- Another pendulum may be pointed out and he will start that one apparently by looking at it, while the other one stops.
- With a little practice anyone can become a skilled medium in pendulum swinging.