Bracing

(adj.) imparting vitality and energy; 'the bracing mountain air' .

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• In 1810 Sir Robert Seppings, surveyor of the English navy, devised and introduced the system of diagonal bracing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The air blowing on the brow was fresh, and sweet, and bracing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That evening found us in the cold, bracing atmosphere of the Peak country, in which Dr. Huxtable's famous school is situated. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• No bracing critical atmosphere plays about his mind: there are no cleansing doubts and fruitful alternatives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He had held the bull's tail to pull him away from a fallen man, bracing hard and pulling and twisting. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He seemed to bring a whiff of his strong, fresh, bracing, east-coast air with him as he entered. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The walls of stately date-palms that fenced the gardens and bordered the way, threw their shadows down and made the air cool and bracing. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• That bracing up was only a part of the large egotistical schemes that dominated him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She needed bodily strengthening and bracing as well as rest. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• We are usually not conscious of the air around us, but sometimes we realize that the air is heavy, while at other times we feel the bracing effect of the atmosphere. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It is built on a plain two thousand feet above tide water, where the air is bracing and the situation healthy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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