| 单词 | lift |
| 释义 | lift I. now chiefly Scotland < the sweet calm moon in the midnight lift — John Wilson †1854 > II. transitive verb 1. a. < the elevator lifts pedestrians ninety feet up the steep face of the cliff — American Guide Series: Oregon > < did not lift his head from his book — D.M.Davin > < lifted his pen from the paper > b. < lifted him to national recognition > < millions of families … have been lifted from poverty — F.L.Allen > c. < a … church building lifts a tall clock tower — American Guide Series: Texas > < the highest of these peaks … lifts its majestic cone far into the zone of permanent snow — P.E.James > d. < lift prices of commodities — L.C.Jauncey > 2. now chiefly dialect < the laird lifted his rent — Charles Gibbon > 3. archaic 4. a. b. c. (1) < urged the … government to lift the embargo on the shipment of arms — Current Biography > (2) < lift a passport > d. 5. a. < had his pocketbook lifted > as (1) < I'll never lift no more cattle — R.M.Daw > (2) b. < lift a word out of context > < the writer lifted an episode from history > 6. chiefly Scotland 7. a. < tubers should not be lifted when there are blight spots on the leaves — New Zealand Journal of Agric. > b. < don't lift bulbs before leaves are brown — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > 8. < lift the hair > 9. < lift a mortgage > 10. 11. 12. 13. a. b. < lift the fire prior to the advance of the infantry — Organized Reserve Corps Army Training Bulletin > 14. < lifted the staff and students … to California and back — Collier's Year Book > 15. 16. a. b. intransitive verb 1. a. < a hundred-passenger airliner lifts from a New York airport — Seth Babits > < a blue jay lifted suddenly from the rubbish heaps — Clemence Dane > b. < white church spires lift above green valleys — Gladys Taber > < green mountains which lift above the desert — Holiday > 2. a. b. < the rain slackened, lifted, and finally left off — H.E.Bates > 3. 4. 5. 6. < on such a wicket … the ball is liable to lift sharply — Calling All Cricketers > 7. Synonyms: < lift a book to dust under it > < lift a log onto a truck > < the tall buildings lifted their spires above the surrounding plain > raise can be interchanged with lift but often suggests strongly a bringing of something to a vertical or a high position for which it is designed or fitted < raise a chair above his head > < raise a flag > < raise a building > < raise a civilization to eminence > rear can sometimes especially in figurative use be interchanged with raise, but can also suggest a certain literal or figurative suddenness in the movement from a lower to higher position, as of something jutting < raise children to be responsible adults > < rear children to a happy adulthood > < the horse reared, its front feet flailing high in the air > < the building reared thirty-odd stories high > elevate can, in a certain literary style, be interchanged with lift or raise, but generally suggests exaltation, uplifting, or enhancing < elevate a hand and an eyebrow > < an instructor elevated to a professorship > < elevate your standards of good conduct > < elevate his thoughts > hoist usually implies the raising aloft of something of considerable weight especially by mechanical means < lay the heavy weights on the ground and subsequently have to hoist them up again — C.S.Forester > < the boat rocked as the admiral hoisted his bulk inboard — A.B.Mayse > < it takes five power winches to hoist this mammoth expanse of canvas on the five 62-foot center poles of Douglas fir — Monsanto Magazine > heave suggests strain and great effort < he looked like a massive, slow-footed bear as he heaved himself out of the car — Jean Stafford > < nature's way of creating a mountain peak — first the heaving up of some blunt monstrous bulk of rumpled rock — C.E.Montague > < his men heaved and heaved, but they couldn't get that anchor off the bottom — C.L.Carmer > boost suggests lifting or assisting to move upward by a push or other help from below < boosted him through the skylight on the new roof — American Guide Series: Louisiana > Synonym: see in addition steal. • - lift at - lift one's voice III. 1. < a lift of sheet steel > < 610,000 pounds of daily cargo lift — New York Times > 2. a. < the clear lift of a girl's voice — Cliff Farrell > < a lift of her eyebrows > b. < the lift and boom of the waves — Sacheverell Sitwell > < the lift and sweep of the hills to the sky — John Connell > c. < the proud lift of her head > d. < in a superb lift at the end — Dance Observer > — compare elevation 1d 3. a. b. c. d. 4. a. b. obsolete 5. a. b. < gave her lifts in his car between there and the village — Elizabeth Taylor > < the rain-drenched couple raising their thumbs for a lift — E.D.Radin > 6. dialect England 7. 8. dialect England 9. a. b. 10. < people … most deserving of such a lift in fortune — F.L.Allen > < another lift in transport costs — Sidney (Australia) Bulletin > 11. < came down from the little lift in the ground where they were standing — W.C.Williams > 12. < the vertical lift of the lower lock is 25 feet — Civil Engineering > 13. a. b. < a lift for books in a library > c. chiefly Britain < heard him ring for the lift — J.D.Beresford > d. e. < three new lifts highlight New Hampshire's extension of ski facilities — Judith D. Beal > — see alpine lift, chair lift, ski lift f. < a tractor with a power lift > 14. a. < the great lift of the thing … is what still compels in this great picture — F.J.Mather > b. < needs the lift that the right clothes can give — Springfield (Massachusetts) City Library Bulletin > < got a tremendous lift from the experience — W.P.Webb > < a sudden lift of excitement — Oliver La Farge > 15. 16. a. b. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. < when a lift of printed sheets is removed from the press — R.W.Polk > 23. a. < move 1332 troops with their equipment in a single lift — E.A.Suttles > < our ship carried a diverse and colorful fragment of … the second lift — Gordon Merrick > < a food lift > b. < says the Korea lift is the longest in the world — Frederick Graham > < how the Berlin lift works — Charles Gardner > • - on the lift |
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