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well-turned

/wel-turnd/US // ˈwɛlˈtɜrnd //

匀称的,圆润的,圆润的转身,匀称

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : gracefully shaped: a well-turned ankle.
    • : gracefully and concisely expressed: a well-turned phrase.

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Examples

  • The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

  • Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.

  • The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.

  • In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

  • The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.

  • Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

  • The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.

  • Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.

  • The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

  • He turned his eyes upon her; but no sympathy was in their beams; no belief in the semblance of her tears.