stretch
n. 伸展, 张开, 连绵, 一段路, 一段时间 a. 可伸缩的, 弹性的 vt. 伸展, 张开, 曲解, 使过度伸展 vi. 伸展, 延伸 [计] 伸展
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教材释义与例句
伸展，延伸
伸展,张开；（大量地）使用，消耗（金钱，时间）；使竭尽所能；使全力以赴；
伸展；足够买（或支付）
释义与例句
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An act of stretching.
伸展
可数 不可数I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
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2.
A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
可数 不可数It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
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A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
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The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
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A length of time.
A jail or prison term.
A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
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Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
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A length of time.
Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
爱尔兰 可数 不可数There is a grand stretch in the evenings.
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A length of time.
A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
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The ability to lengthen when pulled.
可数 不可数That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
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A segment of a journey or route.
可数 不可数It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.
It's a tough stretch of road in the winter, especially without chains.
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A segment or length of material.
可数 不可数a stretch of cloth
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A walk.
英国 古体 可数 俚语 不可数In the afternoon I went for a stretch into the country, & about 4 it cleared up pretty well, so I hurried back & we got a cart & drove to Bassano, a little town about 8 miles off, that we wanted to see.
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A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
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Term of address for a tall person.
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A length of time.
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A length of time.
The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
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A length of time.
A jail or prison term.
可数 俚语 不可数He did a seven-year stretch in jail.
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To lengthen by pulling.
伸展
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拉长
及物I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
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To lengthen when pulled.
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不及物The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
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To pull tight.
伸展
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拉长
及物First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
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To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
伸展
不及物 及物I always stretch my muscles before exercising.
When the cat woke up, it yawned and stretched.
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5.
To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
不及物The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
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To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
比喻 及物I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
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To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
比喻 及物To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
To say he's been to this park a million times is stretching the numbers. The true number is around 30 or 40.
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To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
及物Her bizarre explanation really stretches credulity.
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To increase, to grow.
不及物As I sat in the waiting room, the minutes stretched into hours.
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To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
航海 交通The ship stretched to the eastward.
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To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
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To execute by hanging.
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To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
非正式 不及物 废旧a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
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To increase.
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词源
From Middle English strecchen, from Old English streċċan (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark.
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