Bend

(noun.) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.).

(noun.) diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left.

(noun.) a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range.

(noun.) a circular segment of a curve; 'a bend in the road'; 'a crook in the path'.

(verb.) change direction; 'The road bends'.

(verb.) form a curve; 'The stick does not bend'.

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• And with that I commenced to bend him back across my knee and tighten my grip upon his throat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He coughed and spat and listened to the heavy machine gun hammer again below the bend. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• What Makes a Stick Seem to Bend in Water? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I only hear of you in town as active and wilful, quick to originate, hasty to lead, but slow to persuade, and hard to bend. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There is a chain of my hair and a talisman attached to keep you from harm, so bend your head, my knight, and I will give it to you. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The assemblies for three years held out against this injustice, though constrained to bend at last. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A boon', a boon', quoth Earl' Mar-shal', And fell' on his bend'-ded knee', That what'-so-e'er' the queen' shall say', No harm' there-of' may be'. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Rinaldi bent it more. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I was bent on writing to Ponsonby. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Boultby heard and deliberated with bent brow and protruded under lip. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Here, bending towards Mr. Pickwick, he whispered in a deep, hollow voice, 'A Buff ball, Sir, will take place in Birmingham to-morrow evening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was bending forward when I saw it first; and when I spoke, it darted away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The greater the refractive power of the lens, the greater the bending, and the nearer the principal focus to the lens. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The bending or deviation of light in its passage from one substance to another is called refraction. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They sit down, Mr. Bagnet as if he had no power of bending himself, except at the hips, for that purpose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The aneroid barometer is an air-tight box whose top is made of a thin metallic disk which bends inward or outward according to the pressure of the atmosphere. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Analytical Chemist again bends and whispers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The bends of the rivers are such at this point as to almost form an island, scarcely above water at that stage of the river. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Rosa bends down on the footstool at my Lady's feet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• When we hold a stick partly in the water, it looks as though the stick bends just where it enters the water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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