belly out

短语

[体]帆扬风

词形变化

bellied out bellies out 三单 bellies out bellying out bellying out 现在分词 bellied out 过去式 bellied out 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To bulge or billow outward.

    不及物

    1944, Caleb Milne, “I Dream of the Day...” Letters from Caleb Milne, Africa, 1942-1943, Woodstock, NY: Van Rees Press, Chapter 4, p. 21, Now and then the street bellies out into an ancient lime-stone square filled with fiacres and peddlers, pausing in the loud sunshine.

  2. 2.

    To cause to bulge or billow outward.

    及物

    1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Happiness” (written in 1791), lines 30-31, The scene is changed and Fortune’s gale Shall belly out each prosperous sail.

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