| 单词 | blood-propped |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood-propped 2. Held up by a prop; supported by or as if by a prop. Frequently with up. Also (and earliest) as the second element in instrumental compounds (literal and figurative) as blood-propped, pole-propped. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supported > propped underpight1377 shored1563 propped1612 underpropped1632 stutted1638 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. I4 His bloud-propt throne. 1658 J. Eliot Poems 60 That propt up nose like a Percullis where, The god of warr, keeps Citizens in fear: By artificiall Surgeons is let down. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 154 The sight of propt-up cottages which fright the fancy more than those already fallen. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iii. 69 I think the propped machicolations of the Palazzo Vecchio and Duomo of Florence far grander. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 339 He sank weakly on to a chair and buried his head in his propped-up arms. 1919 H. F. Waring Christianity's Unifying Fundamental xi. 148 A leaning, pole-propped granary in the wayside meadow. 1940 H. Spring Fame is Spur xxiv. 695 He leaned back against the propped-up pillows. 1956 W. Merchant & A. Bolton Introd. Theory Structures v. 83 Find the deflection at the mid-point of the propped cantilever shown in fig. 5.18. 1994 Theatre Jrnl. 46 168 The scene generates an uncanny thrill by using even a propped-up corpse as an ‘agent’ of violent revenge. < as lemmas |
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