| 单词 | slanted |
| 释义 | slanted (once / 6129 pages) adj Things that are slanted have a sharp angle or slope. You might admire the way the morning sun glints against the slanted metal roof of your barn. A skateboard ramp is slanted, and so is the entire side of an A-frame house. When something is angled in a slant or diagonal, it's slanted. Another meaning of the adjective is "biased," or "one-sided." Slanted news coverage, for example, only gives you one perspective on a controversial subject, rather than the whole picture. The verb slant comes from the sixteenth century word slenten, or "slip sideways." WORD FAMILYslant: slanted, slanting, slants+/slanting: slantingly USAGE EXAMPLESAt the snap, defensive end Jonathan Allen slanted inside and knocked down both the offensive tackle and the guard. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) “Now it includes bad reporting, slanted journalism and outright propaganda. And I think we’re doing a disservice to lump all those things together.” New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) No carnage can startle me these days, but smaller sights—a toddler asleep, slanted on his dad’s chest—might bring me to tears. The New Yorker(Nov 22, 2016) 1adj having an oblique or slanted direction Syn aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanting, sloped, sloping inclined at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position 2adj favoring one person or side over another Syn biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, skewed partial showing favoritism |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。