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whiplash

/hwip-lash, wip-/US // ˈʰwɪpˌlæʃ, ˈwɪp- //UK // (ˈwɪpˌlæʃ) //

鞭打,鞭子,颈椎病,鞭打法

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the lash of a whip.
    • : an abrupt snapping motion or change of direction resembling the lash of a whip.
    • : Also whiplash injury. a neck injury caused by a sudden jerking backward, forward, or both, of the head: Whiplash resulted when their car was struck from behind.
    • : Also called whiplash curve . a connected series of reverse curves of more or less elliptical form, used as a major design motif in the Art Nouveau style.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to beat, hit, throw, etc., with or as if with a whiplash.
    • : to affect adversely, as by a sudden change: new taxes whiplashing corporate earnings.

Examples

  • Just cause “prevents media workers from getting caught in the whiplash of a reactive response from a company to pressure from outside groups, or public reaction… about something that someone may post on social media,” she added.

  • With a postcard-perfect landscape carved by glaciers, pockmarked by freshwater lakes, studded with granite peaks, and flush with wildflowers, you’ll get whiplash trying to take it all in.

  • That we’re now meant to cheer her on is whiplash-inducing, and when a movie inspires whiplash, I tend to think it’s trying to do something beyond its most obvious surface-level pleasures.

  • So I feel like I’m justified in that, you’re going to see me falling and getting whiplash on my board, flying around.

  • The plot here makes whiplash turns, loop de loops and sudden reversals.

  • Teller will reteam with his Whiplash director Chazelle on La La Land, which starts shooting in the spring.

  • Whiplash was shot in just 19 days and then edited in 10 weeks to make Sundance.

  • We have Damien Chazelle at the beginning of his career with Whiplash.

  • For Peggy, this season was all about professional success and romantic whiplash.

  • Much of the action in Whiplash requires serious suspension of disbelief.

  • Peabody stared, and a streak of crimson leaped into his cheek as if a whiplash had been laid across it.

  • Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash.

  • Quick as a flash he dealt the other a blow on the cheek, an open-handed blow that stung like a whiplash.

  • No curses greeted them; no whiplash cut into them; no strong arm jerked them over the harness.

  • The heavy plaits of the whiplash curled round the legs of the trader, and he writhed.