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wing-nut

翼人,翼型人,僚机,翼神

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a nut having two flat, widely projecting pieces such that it can be readily tightened with the thumb and forefinger.

Examples

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.

  • He sometimes surmised that it was because he was too outspokenly identified with the diminished liberal wing of the party.

  • Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.

  • In other words, this is a very small vast-right-wing-conspiracy.

  • Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.

  • His idea was that there would be ample time later to order a concentration on either wing or on the centre.

  • This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.

  • It is prepared from the nut of the areca palm, one of the most beautiful trees in the world.

  • As it was he had to press Nejdi into a fast gallop before he could clear the left wing of the advancing army.