Girdle

(noun.) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers.

(noun.) an encircling or ringlike structure.

(verb.) put a girdle on or around; 'gird your loins'.

(verb.) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; 'girdle the plant'.

艾琳编辑

• Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Cedric hath another javelin stuck into his girdle, and thou knowest he does not always miss his mark. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Stranger still, he whirled the girdle twice around his head, then released one end so that the leather strip flew out and the stone shot straight at a bird in the water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Surely he will not be long now: it is just ten (looking at a little gold watch she drew from her girdle). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer implements, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• She was fastening into her girdle a hueless and scentless nosegay, when Henry Sympson called to her as he came limping from the house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She took up the theme again five minutes after, as Caroline fastened her dress and clasped her girdle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• All wore strange protruding girdles of dried grass about their hips and many were loaded with brass and copper anklets, armlets and bracelets. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Moreover, Cr?sus dedicated the ornaments from his wife's neck and her girdles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• So they fastened belt-claws to their stout girdles and tugged the bow strings into place with their back and leg muscles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Poseidon, has thou then girdled Hymettus with the azure scarf of ocean? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He seemed to be girdled with an iron ring. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But, he was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring, and the rivets of the iron ring held tight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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