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waltz-length

/wawlts-lengkth, -length, -lenth/US // ˈwɔltsˌlɛŋkθ, -ˌlɛŋθ, -ˌlɛnθ //

华尔兹长度,华尔兹的长度,华尔兹长,华尔兹长曲

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.

Examples

  • To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.

  • “It seems that the different standard is (based on) the length of the beard and outwardly display of piety,” Hamdani said.

  • Hitchcock was fascinated when I pointed out the similarity, and considered it at some length.

  • The camera dollied backward along the length of the tower's staircase while simultaneously its lens zoomed forward.

  • People in the comments section were complaining about the length of one of these essays that ran in The New Yorker.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • These sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.

  • Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.

  • At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.

  • The experience of the Jesuit fathers at Port Royal is related at length, from their own point of view.