Curl

(noun.) American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933).

(verb.) form a curl, curve, or kink; 'the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling'.

(verb.) play the Scottish game of curling.

(verb.) twist or roll into coils or ringlets; 'curl my hair, please'.

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• One curl of a girl's ringlet, one hair of a whisker, will turn the scale against them all in a minute. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Miss Moss, a dark-eyed maid in curl-papers, appeared with the teapot, and, smiling, asked the Colonel how he had slep? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Standing before the dressing-glass was a middle-aged lady, in yellow curl-papers, busily engaged in brushing what ladies call their 'back-hair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I asked my friend, the young Marquis of Worcester, why he did not curl his straight locks. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• There he leant over the wall and lowered the lamp, only to behold the vortex formed at the curl of the returning current. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It will be remembered that Senator Roscoe Conkling, then very prominent, had a curl of hair on his forehead; and all the caricaturists developed it abnormally. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But it does not curl around inside of you the way the absinthe does, he thought. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Monsieur curled his lip, gave me a vicious glance of the eye, and strode to his estrade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr. Dick, who is to give my darling to me at the altar, has had his hair curled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The corners of the Sergeant's melancholy mouth curled up, and he looked hard in my face, just as he had looked in the garden. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• And here, Noah nodded his head expressively; and curled up as much of his small red nose as muscular action could collect together, for the occasion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• She curled her legs between his and rubbed the top of her head against his shoulder. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• These flat brims curled at the edge came in then. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Eva's curls are my pride. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I would almost as soon believe that the cat curls the end of its tail when preparing to spring, in order to warn the doomed mouse. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and their curls lack crispness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Put one in mine then, that I wish all my curls cut off, and given round to my friends. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Those deep gray eyes rather near together--and the delicate irregular nose with a sort of ripple in it--and all the powdered curls hanging backward. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He had light-brown curls. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Chancing for an instant to look down, his glance rested on an uplifted face, flushed, smiling, happy, shaded with silky curls, lit with fine eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The boy was a handsome, bright-eyed mulatto, of just Henrique's size, and his curling hair hung round a high, bold forehead. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• In this young sportsman, distinguished by a crisply curling auburn head and a bluff countenance, the Secretary descried the orphan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was the precise, crackling, curling roll of automatic rifle fire. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• As the wax dropped into the fire a long flame arose from the spot, and curling its tongue round the figure ate still further into its substance. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• You needn't do that, said Crispin, curling his lip as he observed the action; we are not going to punish you. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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