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square-shouldered

/skwair-shohl-derd/US // ˈskwɛərˈʃoʊl dərd //

方肩,方肩的,方肩形,方肩形的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the shoulders held back, giving a straight form to the upper part of the back.

Examples

  • Some longtime local acquaintances are struggling to square the man they know with the ugly associations.

  • This last trip it had felt as if there were more cameras around Havana than Times Square.

  • Records describe this house as 6,916 square feet, with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms.

  • The international media had been waiting on Wenceslas Square since early afternoon.

  • In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.

  • Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.

  • For years his lordship was seldom seen in London, the great house in Grosvenor Square was never opened.

  • She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.

  • I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

  • The building, which has five storeys, stands on three sides of a square courtyard, and faces into Edmund Street.