sinews
/sin-yoo/US // ˈsɪn yu //UK // (ˈsɪnjuː) //
筋腱,筋肉,筋骨,筋脉
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n.名词 noun
- 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
- : to furnish with sinews; strengthen, as by sinews.
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nounstrength
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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.
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