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spring-loaded

/spring-loh-did/US // ˈsprɪŋˈloʊ dɪd //

弹簧式,弹簧式的,弹簧载荷,弹簧负载

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.

Examples

  • She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

  • This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.

  • It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

  • Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.

  • Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.

  • Before we had all fired, Fanning and a dozen of his sharpest men had again loaded, and were by our side.

  • This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

  • The reveillée of the sleeping Mexicans was the discharge of our two field-pieces loaded with canister.

  • It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.

  • I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.