Inching [
'intʃiŋ]
n. 精密送料(低速转动发动机,微动)
- Prices are inching down.
物价在慢慢下降。 - He held on tight to the rope and began inching down the cliff.
他紧紧抓住绳子,开始慢慢地滑下峭壁。
Inch \Inch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Inching}.]
1. To drive by inches, or small degrees. [R.]
He gets too far into the soldier's grace
And inches out my master. --Dryden.
2. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. [R.]
- Inching around the hot, foetid, crowded galleries was an experience she rated on a par with rush-hour on the Northern Line.