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sinews

/sin-yoo/US // ˈsɪn yu //UK // (ˈsɪnjuː) //

筋腱,筋肉,筋骨,筋脉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tendon.
    • : Often sinews. the source of strength, power, or vigor: the sinews of the nation.
    • : strength; power; resilience: a man of great moral sinew.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to furnish with sinews; strengthen, as by sinews.

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Examples

  • But I personally started to feel disrespected, that that caused me—because of my heart, my sinew—to overreact.

  • The butcher sawed excruciatingly slowly through bone and sinew.

  • For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.

  • These arrow-heads have generally a shoulder where the arrow was set into the shaft, there to be bound tightly with sinew or fiber.

  • It is the nerve that accompanies the sinew, and Howell Gruffydd now receives and despatches telegrams.

  • The diaphragm is peculiar in that it is somewhat circular in shape and is more or less tendinous or sinew-like in the middle.

  • She roused all her energies; strained every sinew, and put forth all her remaining strength.