I went home along a winding mountain path. 我沿着弯曲的山路回家。
Having many coils; winding. 卷的有很多卷的;绕的
winding
[ noun ]
the act of winding or twisting
<noun.act> he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind [ adj ]
marked by repeated turns and bends
<adj.all> a tortuous road up the mountain winding roads are full of surprises had to steer the car down a twisty track
of a path e.g.
<adj.all> meandering streams rambling forest paths the river followed its wandering course a winding country road
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound) (rarely {Winded}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] [OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. {Wander}, {Wend}.] 1. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton.
2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak.
3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. ``To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.'' --Shak.
In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer.
Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick.
Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. --Addison.
4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak.
Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --Gov. of Tongue.
5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
{To wind off}, to unwind; to uncoil.
{To wind out}, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
{To wind up}. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. ``Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.'' --Dryden. ``Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.'' --Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. ``Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.'' --Waller.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] 1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
3. (a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. (b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
{To wind a ship} (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From {Wind}, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound), R. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. ``Hunters who wound their horns.'' --Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. --Pope.
That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W. Scott.
Winding \Wind"ing\, n. 1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. --Milton.
2. The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as (Elec.), a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Winding engine}, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.
{Winding sheet}, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.
{Winding tackle} (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel. --Totten.
Winding \Wind"ing\, n. [From {Wind} to blow.] (Naut.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
Winding \Wind"ing\, a. [From {Wind} to twist.] Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. --Keble.
'This is not the time to be chasing value to the ends of the earth and winding up in the Colombian stock market.
Television talk show host Oprah Winfrey came home for the renaming of the winding gravel road that runs in front of the house where she was born.
Against the background of his belief that he had two years from the winding up to make his application, sufficient explanation for the delay had been given. With regard to the inaccuracies, this was public interest litigation.
Its fortifications, chateau, winding streets and son et lumieres are picturebook Europe.
Negotiations with the IRS over a $643 million tax claim against Executive Life are winding up and should be concluded early next year in a manner that will not adversely affect policyholders, Mr. Garamendi said.
For Cornu, it has been complemented by commercial experience gained from a winding career through various technology-based companies. His first job was at Asea Brown Boveri, the Swedish-Swiss engineering group, where he worked in the research department.
In addition, Mr. Clausen said that BankAmerica's aggressive shrinkage is winding down, although he said the company will soon disclose the sale of an overseas unit with $1 billion in assets.
AT&T is winding down its use of ads that show corporate underlings getting chewed out by the boss _ or worrying that they might be fired _ for picking the wrong telephone service.
With the war winding down, the two countries must decide whether to restore their oil industries to their pre-war might.
The trial of a $3.5 million wrongful death suit filed after the 1986 suicide of Sen. John East is winding down with closing arguments set to begin this week.
"I don't think we will ever shoot a picture of a car going down a wet, winding road," Mr. Riney said.
So charges a report by a community board that represents several Manhattan neighborhoods, including Greenwich Village, where it found that some narrow, winding streets "have become impassable."
After the Mass in Prague, students retraced the three-mile path of the Nov. 17 march, walking to Vysehrad Cemetery and cathedral and winding through Prague's historic streets for a rally at Wenceslas Square.
The stock immediately drifted downward before leveling off and winding up unchanged at $35.875 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading; Wall Street had been expecting better results.
Then, as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was winding up the convention with a rousing defense of her record, it was announced that the annual inflation rate had crept up from 7.3 percent to 7.6 percent.
Albanian men and boys lined the narrow, winding, unpaved streets leading to the Moslem cemetery in Suva Reka, 40 miles south of Pristina, as policemen carried the coffin on its last journey.
DENNEY v JOHN HUDSON & CO LTD (FT, May 8) In the instant case, the creditor made deliveries of diesel oil to the company both before and after the petition for compulsory winding up.
Bond prices immediately surged but very quickly ran out of steam, winding up with large declines for the day.
Third World textile exporters have argued that trade, worth some $177 billion annually, should be liberalized by winding down an existing system under which import quotas are fixed in bilateral deals.
As Ms. Johnson stands outside the Hammack house after winding up her chores there, the house begins to creak and sway.
The space shuttle had been designed, the Apollo moon program was winding down and there seemed no need for space missions requiring re-entry with the accompanying hypersonic speeds.
Earlier in Europe, traders said what little activity existed fizzled out with the winding down of the Tokyo trading day.
The Federal Election Commission certified almost $3.5 million in new federal matching funds on Wednesday for 11 presidential candidates, including nearly $900,000 for Pat Robertson whose Republican campaign is winding down.
Mr. Swearingen says Mr. Theobald will spend next week in Chicago getting to know Continental's staff, the following two weeks in New York winding up his affairs, and then will permanently be here.
The accident on a narrow, winding stretch occurred a year and a day after the church bus crash about 20 miles away near Carrollton.
The Dukakis family came from Pelopi, a cluster of stone houses reached by a dirt road winding up Mytilene's highest mountain and still considered one of the poorest villages on the island.
The winding, hilly streets were blocked at intervals by barricades of cars, most of them with their tires shot out.
Ocean Avenue, the winding, thin road where the Bush family lives, is often lined with cars bearing people who sit and stare by the hour at the Bush estate.
The hilltop village of Eze looks wonderful from a distance, with its medieval houses and churches winding around the natural fortress of its hill.
Shevardnadze is winding up two days of meetings here with Secretary of State James A. Baker III.