单词 | leaden |
释义 | lead·en I. 1. a. < a leaden box > b. (1) (2) (3) < a leaden sky > < of a dull leaden paleness — Anthony Trollope > 2. a. < his golden tact and leaden taste — H.M.Reichard > b. (1) < all their equipment had become leaden — Norman Mailer > < his body seemed a trifle less leaden — John Buchan > : oppressive < a leaden silence fell — Jean Stafford > (2) < had a lot of power and a lot of leaden feet — Ty Cobb > c. (1) < the heavy leaden eyes turn on you — R.W.Emerson > < its hero is a leaden bore — New Yorker > (2) < giving the music a leaden character — Arthur Berger > < their ironies are leaden — Charles Lee > < there's a rather leaden first act — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < this version … is full of fine shots of India … but the picture itself is leaden — John McCarten > • lead·en·ly • lead·en·ness II. < the dead palace floors had leadened his feet — William Sansom > < a brain leadened with fear > |
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