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trapeze

/tra-peez or, especially British, truh-/US // træˈpiz or, especially British, trə- //UK // (trəˈpiːz) //

秋千,秋千架,秋千式,秋千式的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an apparatus, used in gymnastics and acrobatics, consisting of a short horizontal bar attached to the ends of two suspended ropes.
    • : a device by which a crew member can be suspended almost completely outboard while hiking.

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Examples

  • Freed from her guitar, but wearing counterintuitive pumps, she leaned back like a trapeze artist.

  • Trapeze artists and those shot out of cannonballs would fall to their death.

  • For a hot minute, we had Mayor Bloomberg in a trapeze, but we lost him.

  • Trapeze tragedy The St. Louis Trapeze Incident occurred in 1872.

  • The miner's job would be as much beyond my power as it would be to perform on a flying trapeze or to win the Grand National.

  • "—And right there is where you would miss the trapeze bar by a foot, and no net under you," interrupted Davy disgustedly.

  • However, the Prince pointed out to me the girl on the trapeze, the same one you had admired in Rome.

  • In the loft a boy learns to turn flip-flops, and with a lariat rope he can make a trapeze.

  • Then if the bar be grasped and the body thrown forward, the trapeze, the arms, and the body will form the segment of a circle.

  • As I sat on the trapeze bar there was that boy forty feet above me kicking and yelling.