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swallow-tailed

/swol-oh-teyld/US // ˈswɒl oʊˌteɪld //

燕尾,燕尾服,燕尾型,燕尾形的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow, as various birds.
    • : having an end or part suggesting a swallow's tail.
    • : having a triangular indentation in the fly so as to create two tails.

Examples

  • For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

  • For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.

  • Even more difficult to swallow: Perry likes to put his name in front of a lot of his projects.

  • It's a hard pill to swallow not because the show isn't good.

  • Jordan is in an even more delicate position, and a country that ISIS would dearly like to swallow.

  • Hunger had to be satisfied, however, and I had to swallow my pride and my five-pennyworth.

  • In smoking, they swallow the fumes of the tobacco which causes intoxication for a time.

  • The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.

  • Here was something for the "babes and sucklings" of the craft of violin making to swallow.

  • I doa'nt swallow that story o' her'n. Depend upon it, man, it be a big lie fro' beginning to end.