| 单词 | stiff |
| 释义 | stiff I. 1. a. < wears a stiff collar > < sitting … on the edge of a stiff chair — Scott Fitzgerald > < a palace guardsman, stiff as a poker in his tall busby, stands sentinel > < knots in the gaskets were stiff with frost — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > b. < still unburied, lay … stiff and stark — R.L.Stevenson > c. < my body was stiff from exertion as well as from cold — Jack London > < tried to smile … but her face felt stiff — Margaret Deland > d. obsolete < another arrow forth from his stiff string he sent — George Chapman > e. < clocks whose mannikins went through … stiff and elegant movements — Lewis Mumford > f. < after drinking … in that bar for two hours, I was pretty stiff — W.R.Hecox > 2. a. < has taken a stiff position that it has the power to forbid its contractors to bargain with unions — R.S.Brown > < kept a stiff upper lip for the term of his ordeal — Bruce Dearing > b. < took a rather stiff … stand in defense of his handiwork — Dexter Perkins > c. < passeth by with stiff unbowed knee — Shakespeare > < too poor to go and too stiff to tell her the reason — Time > d. (1) < the easy warmth you knew has given place to a stiff courtesy — H.J.Laski > < brought his hand … to the visor of his cap in a stiff salute — Wirt Williams > (2) < a style which is lofty but not stiff — C.D.Lewis > < too arid and stiff a melody for song — M.F.Bukofger > 3. < salmon give a stiff fight until landed — American Guide Series: Maine > < she had driven a stiff bargain — Ann F. Wolfe > < heading into a year of stiff competition — Herbert Koshetz > 4. a. obsolete < make you ready your stiff bats and clubs — Shakespeare > b. (1) < a stiff west wind was whooping in off the prairies — F.B.Gipson > (2) < follow … on a stiff lope — Bruce Siberts > < landed … a stiff left to the head — Ring > c. < a couple of stiff cocktails relaxed him completely > < a stiff dose of cod liver oil > 5. a. < the concrete is allowed to stand until it is quite stiff but still workable — Building Estimating & Contracting > < a stiff grease that does a good job of protecting metal — Monsanto Magazine > < beat the egg whites until stiff — Ruth Hutchison > b. < soils … that are wet and stiff — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > c. < an audience stiff with academic dignitaries — Mollie Panter-Downes > < something in the air, intangible, yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses — Edna S. V. Millay > 6. a. < get a stiff fine for disorderly conduct — S.H.Holbrook > < Nicaragua objected and stiff notes were exchanged — Newsweek > b. < stiff terrain > < a stiff … hike up the trail, among jagged boulders and through crevasses — American Guide Series: Arkansas > < leading an orchestra is stiff work — Robert Rice > c. < the examination was so stiff that none below the highest grades of university honors men … could hope to be selected — W.T.Stace > < the casual reader will find certain parts of this book stiff going — Ralph Linton > 7. 8. a. < the rent is a stiff $500 a week — Henry Hewes > < satellite goods paid a stiff duty to enter France — Stringfellow Barr > b. < a stiff market > < buyers … find sellers stiff — London Daily News > 9. Synonyms: < a stiff rod > < a book with stiff covers > < hinges that are a bit stiff > < a stiff pudding > < a stiff smile > < to stand straight and stiff > rigid applies to anything so stiff that bending will break it < a rigid board > < the rigid wings of a plane > inflexible is like rigid but stresses more the lack of suppleness or pliability < an inflexible plastic material > < an inflexible shaft on a golf club > tense, implying tautness, usually applies to muscles or nerves strained in expectation of activity or by nervous excitment < with muscles tense in position to spring > < nerves tense with anxiety > stark implies a stiffness associated with loss of life, warmth, and vitality, often connoting desolation, barrenness, or death < told her once that cut flowers before they actually die … stretch themselves out with a palpable jerk, stark and rigid — J.C.Powys > < here all the surfaces remained stark and unyielding, thin and sharp, like impoverished old maids — George Santayana > < rats … danced comically before they died, and lay in the scuppers stark and ruffled — Sinclair Lewis > wooden, in this application suggesting the hardness and lack of suppleness of wood, implies clumsiness, deadness or heaviness of spirit, or lack of grace or animation < a face that was wooden with misery — Rebecca West > < wooden humorlessness — Times Literary Supplement > < the wooden neatness of routine and failure — Howard Moss > II. 1. < stood up straight and stiff — R.L.Stevenson > < wear a uniform that is starched stiff > 2. < bored stiff > < scared stiff > < advanced into the doctor's consulting room … was frightened stiff — Mary McCarthy > III. 1. 2. slang < cabdrivers often get stiffed > IV. 1. a. b. slang (1) (2) (3) (4) c. (1) (2) (3) (4) slang 2. a. < looked like a mission stiff who had wandered uptown from the Bowery — Joel Sayre > < got the breaks, the lucky stiffs — Jan Peerce > b. < of first importance to every working stiff, farmer and businessman in America — E.A.Lahey > < knew enough about the business to hire on as a construction stiff — Time > especially 3. < no way even of knowing if his horse is trying to win or is a stiff just sent out for the exercise — Ernest Havemann > Synonyms: see vagabond V. VI. < the movie stiffed at the box office > transitive verb 1. < stiffed us with the bar bill > 2. < stiffed sportswriters after the game > |
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