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self-winding

/self-wahyn-ding/US // ˈsɛlfˈwaɪn dɪŋ //

自动上链,自动上弦,自动上发条,自动上锁

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    • : kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.

Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

  • Those who come to the Dinner Party are self-selecting; they do want to talk about it.

  • If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

  • But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?