| 单词 | mainspring |
| 释义 | mainspring (once / 7529 pages) n WORD FAMILY mainspring: mainsprings USAGE EXAMPLESHis ensuing pursuit of “my girls” tightens a mainspring of suspense that drives the narrative onward through increasingly strange revelations. Seattle Times(Jun 10, 2016) The movie’s ingenious mainspring is the problem of authorship. The New Yorker(Mar 18, 2016) In September 2014, Scott Benner, a former heavy equipment operator, was homeless, unemployed and staying at Father Bill’s Place & MainSpring, a shelter in Quincy, Mass. New York Times(Feb 17, 2016) n the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism Hyper spring a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed |
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