| 释义 |
▪ I. glissade, n.|glɪˈsɑːd, -ˈseɪd|
[a. F. glissade, f. glisser to slip, slide; a mountaineering term.]
1. The action of sliding down a steep slope (esp. of ice or snow).
1862Tyndall Mountaineer. vii. 61 In some places the rocks are worn to a powder, along which we shoot by glissades. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe v. (1894) 133 He appeared..none the worse for his involuntary glissade. 1895A. F. Mummery Climbs Alps & Caucasus iii. (ed. 3) 62 Burgener suggested a standing glissade..We trusted to luck and a sitting glissade.
transf. and fig.1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxxvi. 2 The descent to eternal ruin is easy enough, without making a glissade of it. 1882A. Edwardes Ballroom Repent. I. 74 The hundred thousand miles glissade of some shooting meteor. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 88 Here and there dwarf thicket clinging in the general glissade.
2. Dancing. A step consisting of a glide or slide to the right or left.
1843M. Howitt F. Bremer's Home I. x. 120 ‘Our Louise in time will dance very well’, remarked the Judge to his wife, as he noticed with great pleasure the little glissades and chassées of his daughter.
▪ II. glissade, v.|glɪˈsɑːd, -ˈseɪd|
[f. prec.]
intr. To perform a glissade. a. Dancing. (See glissade n. 2.) Also to glissade it. b. Mountaineering. To slide down a steep slope.
1837Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 57 Glissading up to me, waving her pretty little hands, and making a number of graceful, unmeaning antics. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVIII. 628 He comes ‘glissarding [sic] it’ into the drawing-room, and bowing like a dancing-master. 1859Farrar J. Home 213 Kennedy and Cyril..glissaded gallantly over the slopes of snow. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xiii. 347 Driving our heels well into the sand, we half ran, half glissaded, and soon reached the bottom.
Hence gliˈssading vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also gliˈssader, one who glissades.
1832F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood (1878) III. 189 Gibbering, glissading women greeting one another with the rapid music of the original scene. 1861F. W. Jacomb in Peaks, Passes, & Glac. Ser. ii. I. 315 That undignified attitude peculiar to the inexperienced glissader. 1865Reader No. 143. 348/2 Talking of glissading. 1892C. T. Dent Mountain. vi. 194 Snow slopes..on which patches of ice intervene, are unfit for glissading. Ibid. 195 A good glissader can go fast and stop quickly. |