astretch

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    Stretched out, extended.

    1912, Saki (H. H. Munro), “The Music on the Hill” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 153, Astretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow,

  2. 2.

    Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties).

    1833, Hamlet Wood, The Negro: An Historical Poem […] describing the unchristian and wicked principle and practices of slavery, Burslem, UK: for the author, p. 41, […] with attentive gaze, As winds dispelled the dark’ning haze, My eyes astretch—and all my mind afloat, To learn what sort of beings filled the boat;

词源

From a- + stretch.

来源:wiktionary