英语单词 | lopsided |
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英美音标 | 英 [ˌlɒp'saɪdɪd] 美 [ˌlɑːp'saɪdɪd] |
中文释义 | adj.倾向一方的;不平衡的 |
英语例句 | (1) We won a game by a lopsided score of 14 to 2. (2) The lopsided load on the lorry looked dangerous. (3) The occurrence of that type of lopsided economic development has been checked. |
中文例句 | (1) 我们以14比2的悬殊比分赢了一局。 (2) 货车上倾斜的货物看样子很危险。 (3) 这种经济畸形发展的现象被纠正了。 |
vocabulary简明 | Something that's lopsided is crooked or off-balance, like your grandma's lopsided hat, which sits askew on her head. |
vocabulary扩展 | You can use the adjective lopsided to describe things that are crooked or asymmetrical. A bad toothache might cause one side of your jaw to swell, leaving your face feeling — and looking — lopsided. Your might say that your school's student council election is lopsided if one candidate is clearly more qualified than the other. The word lopsided was originally lapsided, and in the early 1700s it almost always referred to a tilting ship. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]向一侧倾斜的;不匀称的 Something that is lopsided is uneven because one side is lower or heavier than the other.
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]悬殊的;严重不平衡的 If you say that a situation is lopsided, you mean that one element is much stronger, bigger, or more important than another element.
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