Stretching

(noun.) act of expanding by lengthening or widening.

整理:罗伯塔

• I was just stretching my legs, when out bounced another woman on me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She was so alone, with the level, unliving field of the water stretching beneath her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Which contained--' interposed Monks, stretching forward. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• In effect, I am of no country,' said Mr Blandois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: 'I descend from half-a-dozen countries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Watson, in San Francisco, over a wire stretching 3,400 miles across the continent. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There are great trees standing all about it, with their branches stretching long and level, and making a deep shade of rest even at noonday. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• This bar-clasp could be moved backward and forward on a rod as the spinner’s hand would do when stretching the thread and winding it on. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The bridge, 800 feet long, is a single span, supported by four enormous cables of wire stretching from the Canadian cliff to the opposite United States cliff. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• At last he turned, still resting against the chair, and stretching his hand automatically towards his hat, said with a sort of exasperation, Good-by. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Dear Rosy, lay down your work and come to sit by me, he said, gently, pushing away the table, and stretching out his arm to draw a chair near his own. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Stretching out his long legs, he crossed the pathless portion of the heath somewhat in the direction which Wildeve had taken. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He also had earthenware drums across which skins were stretched; perhaps also he made drums by stretching skins over hollow tree stems. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To which the person of the house, stretching out her arm in an attitude of command, replied with irresponsive asperity: 'Go along with you! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

校对:伍德罗