| 单词 | bulge |
| 释义 | bulge I. transitive verb 1. archaic 2. intransitive verb 1. archaic, of a ship 2. a. b. of a structure under pressure < the wall buckled and bulged > c. < his eyes will bulge when he sees what we've brought him > 3. < he bulged into the road ahead of me > 4. of a fish 5. < notebook bulged with ideas > < a big new market bulging with sales potential — Printers' Ink > Synonyms: < above her boots … the calves bulged … out — Arnold Bennett > < cans so imperfectly sealed that their contents ferment and bulge the can noticeably — Emily Holt > < houses that bulged with the tumors and warts of the ornamental architecture of the jigsaw period — W.A.White > jut and stick out may indicate the fact of position, situation, or arrangement whereby something extends out from a surface < a window that jutted out and looked up the narrow street — Willa Cather > < a tiny platform that jutted out over the side of the carrier — J.A.Michener > < a square block of stone that jutted from the floor — Liam O'Flaherty > protrude may suggest an unexpected or unusual thrusting out < the jacket slipped to the ground and from the inner pocket he saw the white tops of three envelopes protruding — Victor Canning > < Bill March was carried out, a naked white foot protruding from beneath the white sheet — Robert Tallant > project may apply to a throwing or pressing forward or outward or to something comparable to the results of such an action < the young man projected from the side of the car like the figurehead of a ship — Ernest Hemingway > < a long spit of land covered with pine trees projecting out from the shore — Frank Gibney > < Sullivan was always obliged to think far ahead of its progress. He must project himself hours ahead, a thousand miles beyond the horizon — E.K.Gann > overhang and beetle imply a jutting out over a support, the latter sometimes suggesting ominousness or precariousness < the booths where goods were exposed to sale projected far into the streets and were overhung by the upper stories — T.B.Macaulay > < the limestone bluff rolls closer to the water's edge, overhanging the road with cedar — American Guide Series: Michigan > < a small dark courtyard above which beetled the walls of the castle — John Buchan > < he half arose from his chair and beetled over her. His face was full of the surreptitious joy of having trapped her — Augusta Walker > II. 1. 2. a. < a bulge in the wall > b. < the bulge of Brazil > c. d. 3. 4. < the usual seasonal bulge in inventories > as a. b. c. < using schools in the summer could help provide essential space for the growing bulge in the youth population — W.H.Gaumnitz > especially |
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