| 单词 | hedge |
| 释义 | hedge I. 1. a. < white farmhouses with faded red barns and fields bordered with hedges of green — Gordon Webber > b. < the high stone hedge … encircled the enclosure — A.L.Rowse > 2. a. < pikemen … present a hedge of metal points from which any cavalry would flinch — Tom Wintringham > b. < regarded it as the main function of their existence to raise a hedge around the law — F.W.Farrar > 3. a. < proponents of using fluorides as a hedge against tooth decay — New York Times > b. (1) (2) < realization that common stocks are the best hedge against inflation — C.E.Merrill > (3) 4. < bureaucratic literature … festooned with hedges and qualifications — Fortune > 5. II. transitive verb 1. < its modest lot is hedged by … hibiscus — Frederick Simpich > 2. a. < meandering through an immense meadow hedged by forest — S.H.Holbrook > < a small dance floor crowded with couples and hedged with waiting men — Edmund Wilson > b. < remembered that no great divinity hedges this sovereign — Graham Greene > c. < the bulk and pressure of the rules that hedge him on every side — B.N.Cardozo > — often used with about or in < are hedged about with many special conditions, limitations, and restrictions — F.L.Mott > < hedged themselves in with a thousand dos and don'ts — A.L.Kroeber > 3. < the difficulties which hedged all approach — D.G.Mitchell > 4. obsolete < when you are sent on an errand, be sure to hedge in some business of your own — Jonathan Swift > 5. a. < is hedging its bets in the all-important diplomatic poker game — Newsweek > b. < were advising clients to hedge the imminent inflation by buying farmland — Forum > 6. < ye are hedged on the borders of my path — Adah I. Menken > 7. < when he states a position, he is apt to hedge it round with careful qualifications — Colm Brogan > intransitive verb 1. 2. a. < having found … every incentive to cower and cringe and hedge and no incentive whatever to stand upright as a man — Van Wyck Brooks > b. < the paper for which he was responsible never hedged on public questions — H.K.Rowe > < no mathematician is infallible; he may make mistakes; but he must not hedge — A.S.Eddington > 3. a. < in order to hedge against inflation and save … a part of one's possessions — George Katona > b. c. d. 4. < invested with the sanctity that once hedged about a king — Dumas Malone > III. 1. < a hedge corner > < a hedge plant > < hedge selling on the commodity exchanges > 2. < a hedge parson > < a hedge marriage > 3. < a hedge tavern > |
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