Buckle

(noun.) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong.

(verb.) fold or collapse; 'His knees buckled'.

(verb.) fasten with a buckle or buckles.

手打:瓦内萨

• So you must buckle to. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Well, if I knew as little of life as that, I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole,' said the clerical gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A girl was hung in Massachusetts in 1789 for forcibly taking the hat, shoes, and buckles of another girl she had met in the street. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To hand-rail and stanchion we clung, and finally as we saw the end approaching, snapped the buckles of our harness to the rings at her sides. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• One of the prisoners complained that in the night somebody had taken his buckles out of his shoes. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• One by one I raised the swords to my lips and buckled them again upon their owners. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• A folded note half buckled up in the pocket-book, and half protruding from it, caught his observant glance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She saw him stooping to the bag, undoing the loosely buckled strap, unattentive. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Day after day he rose with the sun, buckled on his leggings, and went off to the rendezvous with Humphrey. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Impossibility of buckling and harmlessness of a dead short-circuit. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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