| 单词 |
reverted |
| 释义 |
reverted, ppl. a.|rɪˈvɜːtɪd|
[f. revert v.]
1. Turned backwards or the wrong way; bent back; reversed.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. iii. ii. 126 Ant. Where France? Dro. In her forhead, arm'd and reuerted, making warre against her heire. 1621Quarles Argalus & P. i. Wks. (Grosart) III. 242/1 Downe each side of his reverted chinne A lock of black neglected haire. 1681Grew Musæum ii. §iii. iv. 237 The lesser ground Mosse with Reverted Leaves. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 91. 2/2 We may observe a Reverted Scene. 1765Treat. Dom. Pigeons 112 Its feathers stand all reverted. 1845Encycl. Metrop. II. 88 This reverted series..may be put under a very elegant and remarkable form. 1870Henfrey Bot. §880 In some cases it has been found that the reverted or pure shoots bore perfect seeds.
2. Of the eyes, etc.: Directed backwards.
1741–2Gray Agrip. 198 Yielding modesty, And oft reverted eye. 1754― Pleasure 28 With forward and reverted eyes. 1815Coleridge Time, Real & Imag. 7 Yet ever runs she with reverted face, And looks and listens for the boy behind. 1858Longfellow Jew. Cemetery Newport xiv, Thus for ever with reverted look The mystic volume of the world they read. 1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 333 The bull..looking back with reverted horn and earnest eye. |
英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容：
相关热词搜索：reverted英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语
字词 恶性肝簇虫 释义 【医】 Hepatozoon perniciosum 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词......