| 单词 | huddle |
| 释义 | hud·dle I. transitive verb 1. Britain < things happened as in a badly directed moving picture, all huddled, all hurried — Donn Byrne > — often followed by a directional adverb < the solemnities had to be huddled through at express speed — Manchester Examiner > < weakness … to huddle up his stories rather than to wind them off to an orderly conclusion — George Saintsbury > 2. < political deaths are huddled and secret — Time & Tide > 3. a. < give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free — Emma Lazarus > < ours is a nation in which military and civilian targets are huddled together — D.H.McLachlan > < all over the country people are huddled round their radios — F.L.Allen > b. < the men huddled themselves low against the wind — A.J.Cronin > < he was huddled in his cot, trying to keep warm — Gertrude Atherton > 4. dialect chiefly England 5. a. archaic < we were huddled out like a flock of sheep, by a file of soldiers — Frederick Marryat > b. < she huddled her purple woolen coat round her — Rumer Godden > — often used with on < I huddled on my clothes — A.T.Quiller-Couch > intransitive verb 1. a. < passengers … huddle like sheep at entrance gates — Bennett Cerf > < an opera chorus huddles round a few haughty soloists — G.B.Shaw > < little printers' cafés … huddle near the thundering presses — Francis Aldor > b. < huddled in the lee of a rock, trying to get a little protection from the wind — H.D.Quillin > < a long gray cat huddled watchfully in the window — Katherine A. Porter > — often used with up < huddled up, closed his eyes, and went quite … peacefully to sleep — James Hilton > c. < hip-length coat, with a big collar to huddle — Lois Long > 2. obsolete < fools huddle on, and always are in haste — Nicholas Rowe > 3. a. < worried financiers huddled to discuss the possible effects of the blow on California's economy — Newsweek > specifically b. II. 1. a. < huddles of cows and sheep > < the ugly huddle of weather-beaten shacks and wharves where the fishermen kept their tackle — L.C.Douglas > < huddle of meaningless words — Edith Sitwell > < the four harpooners, the cooper, and myself were sitting in a huddle in the steerage — H.A.Chippendale > b. < a huddle of black against the starlight — Marjory S. Douglas > 2. < equally free from the dullness of slow or the hurry and huddle of quick time — Earl of Chesterfield > 3. a. < spent some eight hours in a huddle with a dozen laymen and priests — M.E.Bennett > < secret huddles were held by five leading Republicans — Newsweek > < a huddle of social scientists put the finishing touches on a massive study of American life — F.L.Allen > — often used in the phrase go into a huddle < at the end of the bout the judges go into a huddle to determine the winner > < she went into a series of huddles with cheese experts — Harry Thompson > < go into a huddle with yourself about it — Mary D. Gillies > b. c. < went into a huddle before making his first discard — Oswald Jacoby > |
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