西瓜单词

hairpin是什么意思

hairpin

英 ['heəpɪn] 美 ['hɛrpɪn]

hairpin (n.): also hair-pin, 1788 (two words), from hair + pin (n.). A hairpin turn, etc., is from 1906. Hairpin (or clothespin) was American English slang for "person" c. 1880-1910, especially in the expression "That's the kind of hairpin I am."

1. The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.

这条路上急转弯、坡道和死拐角一个接一个。

来自柯林斯例句

3. There are eighteen hairpin bends on the way up Mogan Mountain.: 莫干山上下都是一十八盘.

4. I executed the hairpin turn high on the sheer western face of the mountains.: 我在山脉西侧陡峭的高处成功地急转弯。

5. Hairpin turns force the car to crawl at 10 miles an hour in some places.: 在一些地段，U形弯路使得汽车只能以每小时10英里的速度缓慢行进。