sword 的定义
- a weapon having various forms but consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved blade, sharp-edged on one or both sides, with one end pointed and the other fixed in a hilt or handle.
- this weapon as the symbol of military power, punitive justice, authority, etc.: The pen is mightier than the sword.
- a cause of death or destruction.
- war, combat, slaughter, or violence, especially military force or aggression: to perish by the sword.
- Military. the code name for one of the five D-Day invasion beaches on France's Normandy coast, assaulted by British forces.
sword 近义词
saber
weapon
由sword构成的短语
- sword of Damocles
- at sword's point
- cross swords
更多sword例句
- If critics still want to clash swords and hold people to higher standards, it will be to demand the same authenticity from the institutions that once determined so much of our cultural life.
- Of course, some buyers see this latter fact as somewhat of a double-edged sword – true, the interest rates might be low – but often, the costs of homes are high.
- Her works reflect that women’s agency is a double-edged sword.
- Sure, you’re used to the rumble of the controller as your character falls down a rocky hill or gets struck by an enemy’s sword.
- It comes at the film’s conclusion, after Mulan has returned home to her family and received her father’s blessing for running away with his sword and armor.
- But then the sword is miraculously returned to him, and he girds for battle once again.
- Jonathan Gruber, the economist who helped design Romneycare and the Affordable Care Act, falls on his sword before Congress.
- Unlike all the trailers and screen shots for the movie, in the Bible Moses never holds a sword or wears armor.
- Joshua puts to the sword women, infants, and animals at Jericho.
- At Towton Field, on 29th March, 1461, 33,000 men perished by the sword and were buried there.
- The men, whose poniards his sword parried, had recourse to fire-arms, and two pistols were fired at him.
- Whatever you do, don't write a word to that Carr friend of yours; he's as sharp as a two-edged sword.
- He stabbed her from beneath, and passed half of his sword through her body, and at that the poor lady fell.
- Since words have different meanings, we may sometimes find that a pair of words exemplify all three Laws, as plough and sword.
- The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword taking vengeance upon the ungodly unto destruction.