bends [
bɛnd]
[医] 减压病(尤指减压痛,即因空气栓塞所致的四肢关节、肌肉和腹腔的剧痛)
- The road straightens (out) after a series of bends.
这条路经过几个转弯之後就直了. - The road bends to the right after a few yards.
这条路在几码远的地方转向右方. - The road bends sharply here.
路在这里急转弯。
bends[ noun ]
pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
<noun.state>
- It might be possible, he said, to use gravitational lenses _ areas in space in which gravity bends light in the same way that a magnifying glass does _ to see small, faint stars in the dark halo, if they exist.
- The bends were very sharp, but the Toyota took them like a seasoned skier tackling a mogul run.
- John Naparalla of Neshkoro said it was so dry that the creek was squeaking as it rounded the bends and the spawning carp got sunburned.
- He bends the rule somewhat on recording days.
- The river bends at this point, and the jungle yields briefly to the pressures of 20th century agriculture.
- They are played by the talented actors Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, who look glassy-eyed, as though they are suffering from the bends.
- Just why it bends this way is not clear.
- On their patched and wavy tarmac and acute bends, the Xantia rode serenely. Best of all was the 16-valve model.
- He thinks the arcs may be caused by a gravitational effect that bends light as does an optical lens.
- Mr Bottcher bends over backwards to deny any hint of xenophobia in his campaign. 'I was born in 1948, and no one can accuse me of being a Nazi or a neo-Nazi,' he says.
- Officials appealed to workers to end a walkout that has shut or crippled factories in a disputed southern region, but many pledged to stay home until the government bends to their demands, reports said today.
- For centuries, the twisting Mississippi has straightened and shortened itself by carving "cutoffs" that eliminate bends.
- The distinguished visiting professor with the patch over his right eye tugs at a tweed sleeve and bends an ear to his chiming wristwatch.
- On the shuttle, to avoid getting the "bends," astronauts must either pre-breathe 100% oxygen for 3 1/2 hours before going outside, or lower the pressure of the shuttle for several hours and then breathe oxygen for 40 minutes.
- Bashdar Majid bends down and rubs a hand along the wall of the cell in which he spent three dreadful months, feeling for the spot where he scratched his name.
- Kaw Moo Ra, situated along a curve of the Moei River, can be attacked from Burma only with artillery or by a frontal assault on a well-defended 250-yard strip of land between the two bends in the river.
- Even more than Horovitz and Stern, he makes it look easy as he bends his guitar to strike out cries of human anguish and pleasure.
- In the first duet, Victoria Finlayson lifts one leg and bends as far to her side and back as she can while Robert Swinston, at a distance from her, moves in unrelated patterns.