單詞詳解 | recumbent


recumbent
音標(biāo):
美音:/r??k?mb?nt/,英音:/r??k?mb?nt/
聽(tīng)聽(tīng)基本釋意:
見(jiàn)原文:https://engapi.com/article/4464
外刊例句:
It’s a classic authoritarian move: Make up a baseless charge and then demand that a loyal someone else — in this case the recumbent Republican Congress — prove it for you.
這是典型的威權(quán)主義舉動(dòng):編造毫無(wú)根據(jù)的指控,然后要求忠誠(chéng)的其他人——在這種情況下是現(xiàn)任共和黨國(guó)會(huì)議員——為你證明這一點(diǎn)。
—Salon
Police say three Trek road bicycles, three Trek hybrid bicycles and three recumbent bicycles are valued at about $37,000.
警方表示,三輛 Trek 公路自行車(chē)、三輛 Trek 混合動(dòng)力自行車(chē)和三輛臥式自行車(chē)的價(jià)值約為 37,000 美元。
—Washington Times
Looking more like a wooden shoe carrying a recumbent oil derrick, a huge seaplane, a relatively new development in aviation, passed by, two of its four engines roaring as the seaplane taxied into the U.S.
看起來(lái)更像是一只木鞋,背著一個(gè)橫臥的石油井架,一架巨大的水上飛機(jī),這是航空業(yè)的一個(gè)相對(duì)較新的發(fā)展,從它身邊經(jīng)過(guò),當(dāng)水上飛機(jī)滑行進(jìn)入美國(guó)時(shí),它的四個(gè)引擎中的兩個(gè)發(fā)出轟鳴聲
—Washington Times
基本釋意:
adjective
lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
adj. 斜倚的;休息的
同義詞:
accumbent,decumbent
短釋義:
Recumbent starts like recline, which is an easy way to remember it. Your dad’s position in his favorite La-Z-Boy reclining chair? Recumbent. Your position when you lay back on lounge chair at the pool? Also recumbent — and in both cases, these are both positions of comfort.
躺著而不是坐直的自行車(chē)是靠背的。 Recumbent 是指以斜躺的姿勢(shì)向后靠。
長(zhǎng)釋義:
Recumbent starts like recline, which is an easy way to remember it. Your dad’s position in his favorite La-Z-Boy reclining chair? Recumbent. Your position when you lay back on lounge chair at the pool? Also recumbent — and in both cases, these are both positions of comfort.
Recumbent 開(kāi)始時(shí)像 recline,這是一種容易記住的方法。你爸爸在他最喜歡的 La-Z-Boy 躺椅上的位置?臥著。當(dāng)你躺在游泳池的躺椅上時(shí),你的姿勢(shì)是什么?也是靠著的——在這兩種情況下,這些都是舒適的姿勢(shì)。
文學(xué)例句:
And it was his idea to get a recumbent stationary bicycle.
買(mǎi)一輛臥式固定自行車(chē)是他的主意。
—Rehab continues for comic wounded in shooting by KEVIN SIMPSON
But it isn’t alone: An identical column lies on the ground alongside, and the pairing — now inevitably understood as one standing figure and another, recumbent — comes to represent the basic sociability of all humans.
但它并不孤單:一根相同的柱子躺在旁邊的地上,這對(duì)——現(xiàn)在不可避免地被理解為一個(gè)站立的人和另一個(gè)躺著的人——開(kāi)始代表所有人的基本社交能力。
—Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. by Blake Gopnik
In one of the exhibition’s most beautiful paintings the serene, long-haired bodhisattva Manjusri, a spiritual benefactor drawn in flowing lines, sits in meditation next to a comically ferocious, recumbent lion.
在展覽中最美麗的畫(huà)作之一中,寧?kù)o的長(zhǎng)發(fā)文殊菩薩,一位用流暢的線條畫(huà)出的精神施主,坐在一頭兇猛可笑的臥獅旁邊打坐冥想。
—Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical by KEN JOHNSON
詞源:
recumbent?(adj.)”leaning, reclining,” 1705, from Latin recumbentem (nominative recumbens), present participle of recumbere “recline, lie down, lie down again;” of things, “to fall, sink down, settle down,” from re- “back” (see re-) + -cumbere “to lie down” (related to cubare “l(fā)ie down;” see cubicle). Related: Recumbency (1640s); recumbence (1670s). A verb, recumb, has been attempted in English occasionally since 1670s.Related entries & more
下面是詞源的翻譯(機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻,參考著看)
recumbent(形容詞)“傾斜,斜倚”,1705 年,來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) recumbentem(主格 recumbens),recumbere 的現(xiàn)在分詞“斜倚,躺下,再次躺下;”事物的“跌倒,下沉,安定下來(lái)”來(lái)自 re-“back”(見(jiàn) re-)+ -cumbere“躺下”(與 cubare“躺下”相關(guān);見(jiàn) cubicle)。相關(guān):臥床(1640 年代);臥床(1670 年代)。自 1670 年代以來(lái),英語(yǔ)中偶爾會(huì)嘗試使用動(dòng)詞 recumb。相關(guān)條目及更多