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[化] 弯曲; 弯曲度

  1. Touch your toes without bending your knees.
    用手够到你的脚趾, 膝盖别弯曲.
  2. A gesture of respect or reverence made chiefly by women by bending the knees with one foot forward and lowering the body.
    屈膝礼一种主要由妇女做的表示尊重或恭敬的动作,弯曲双膝,一脚向前迈并使身体下坐
  3. Not bending; inflexible.
    坚挺的不能弯曲的;坚挺的


bending
[ noun ]
  1. movement that causes the formation of a curve

  2. <noun.event>
  3. the property of being bent or deflected

  4. <noun.attribute>
  5. the act of bending something

  6. <noun.act>


Bend \Bend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bended} or {Bent}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Bending}.] [AS. bendan to bend, fr. bend a band,
bond, fr. bindan to bind. See {Bind}, v. t., and cf. 3d & 4th
{Bend}.]
1. To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by
straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for
use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend
the knee.

2. To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
``Bend thine ear to supplication.'' --Milton.

Towards Coventry bend we our course. --Shak.

Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. --Sir W.
Scott.

3. To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

To bend his mind to any public business. --Temple.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will.
--Pope.

4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
``Except she bend her humor.'' --Shak.

5. (Naut.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to
its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
--Totten.

{To bend the brow}, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or
in anger; to scowl; to frown. --Camden.

Syn: To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield.


Bending \Bend"ing\, n.
The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
[Obs.] --Chaucer.

  1. Anticipating the loss of amenities or property values, potentially affected property owners unite into a group capable of bending government to its will.
  2. They keep bending the pole or swinging on the pole.
  3. Tutu muttered, bending under crumpled doorways and crunching shattered glass beneath his feet during a tour of three of the building's six floors.
  4. Doing whatever was necessary may well have involved bending official rules.
  5. Alejandro Morfin ran his fingers over the hairline cracks creeping into the Diego Rivera mural of peasants bending over a bountiful wheat harvest.
  6. The new democracies are hungry for Western-style products and government officials have been bending over backwards to allow U.S. franchises, he said.
  7. With the possible exception of innovations in industrial organisation, the US reaction is invariably that Japan has succeeded by 'bending the rules'.
  8. They complained that Congress has been bending to powerful Israeli lobbying against U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
  9. "When you look behind the numbers, it is clear that, while demand is still soft, the work we have been doing is bending the trends in the right direction," he said.
  10. When you hear Sinatra, he goes around bending a phrase and comes out right at the end.
  11. A galaxy relatively close to Earth acts as a sort of lens, bending the light emitted by a more distant object.
  12. After all, he adds, "Spoon bending is my professional trademark." Mr. Randi counters that everything he said is true.
  13. Or give it the "grin" test by bending back a corner to see how much of the backing shows through.
  14. Despite the low levels of demand, few lenders are bending their underwriting criteria to make loans.
  15. But some of his supporters sound as if they are bending over backwards to accommodate the Americans.
  16. A child bending down to pick up a stone while posing for a family photograph plunged 80 feet off a ledge at a park but survived in serious condition, authorities said.
  17. The government denies it is bending to the will of rebellious officers in proposing the due-obedience law, along with a modernization of military equipment and a rethinking of military policy.
  18. Here the special prosecutor provides some momentary political comfort for the executive, at the cost of bending a strict reading of the Constitution.
  19. George Platoni, who lives near two Freemont Avenue homes that suffered crushed roofs, said he looked from a window to see trees bending in the wind.
  20. This week, many Parliament deputies have been seeking to portray themselves as active opponents of the coup, even if that means bending the truth a little.
  21. "It's tiresome work," says Tom Parisi, 34, of Templeton. "It's hard on your legs and you're bending all day.
  22. Mr. Lyubimov keeps her moving constantly, turning, bending, stretching.
  23. But wouldn't that have made Harry Truman representative? That's another example of bending.
  24. For instance, single refractive lenses typically cause aberrations, such as bending blue light more than red. Engineers traditionally solve the problem in cameras and other devices by adding corrective lenses.
  25. One FMC military liaison already in Saudi Arabia, Thomas Hutson, recently answered the complaint call of Army troops whose Bradley had been rear-ended by another, bending the backdoor so badly it wouldn't close.
  26. Officials of private relief agencies had expressed concern that Hocke was bending to the restrictive national polices of major donor nations rather than speaking out as the protector of refugees worldwide.
  27. Lloyd's solos are sparing and thoughtful, eking out or bending a tone, whispering a run, blending in with the rest of the quartet, not dominating.
  28. The same way movie studios preview films to test audience reaction, Trip Shakespeare experiments with its material on stage, bending notes to the roar of the crowd.
  29. Decked out in a bright red jumpsuit, a headband bending his frizzy hair into the shape of a turnip, he carves out a small practice area from the crush of spectators by jogging backwards and jabbing into the air as if fending off a swarm of bees.
  30. LATE RETIREMENT As baby boomers age, and shortages of workers and skills increase, companies will be bending over backwards to keep their older employees.
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