sways

英 [sweɪz]

美 [sweɪz]

v.  (使)摇摆，摇动; 说服; 使相信; 使动摇
sway的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 摇晃;摇摆;摆动
  When people or thingssway, they lean or swing slowly from one side to the other.
  1. The people swayed back and forth with arms linked...
     人们手挽手，前后摇晃着。
  2. The whole boat swayed and tipped.
     整条船摇晃后翻倒了。
  3. ...a coastal highway lined with tall, swaying palm trees.
     两旁有摇曳的高大棕榈树的沿海公路
• VERB 影响;左右
  If youare swayed bysomeone or something, you are influenced by them.
  1. Don't ever be swayed by fashion.
     永远不要受潮流的影响。
  2. ...last minute efforts by the main political parties to sway the voters in tomorrow's local elections.
     主要政党为说服选民在明天的地方选举中投自己一票而作出的最后努力
• PHRASE 占统治地位;具有重大影响力
  If someone or somethingholds sway, they have great power or influence over a particular place or activity.
  1. South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway...
     阿斯克以南盛行的似乎是一种完全不同的方式。
  2. The 'families' are the basic units, each holding sway over a recognised territory.
     “家庭”是基本单位，每一个家庭都控制着自己受人认可的领地。
• PHRASE 在…的控制下;在…的支配下;在…的影响下
  If you areunder the sway ofsomeone or something, they have great influence over you.
  1. How mothers keep daughters under their sway is the subject of the next five sections.
     在接下来的 5 节将探讨母亲怎样管教女儿。

双语例句

• In light of the residual sways at night.
  就在残灯摇曳的夜里。
• You can see this in the class: A mother in pink sweats and a T-shirt holds her baby facing outward in her arms and sways her hips slowly to the rhythm of jingling bells.
  你可以在课上看到这样一个场面：一位身穿粉红色运动裤和一件T恤的母亲将怀里的宝宝脸朝外，随着叮当作响的铃铛的节奏慢慢摆动着她的臀部。
• As the heavy cars pass, the bridge sways.
  当重型车辆经过，这座桥摇来摇去。
• Here, the crimson skirt of a tribeswoman sways during a performance at the Ndumu Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.
  这里，一位部落的妇女穿深红色裙子摇摆，当一个表演在恩杜穆游戏储备在库哇语祖鲁语――南非的纳塔尔。
• Using the theory of cultural research, Saul Bellow himself is also "the hanging human", as the same as the characters of his works, he always sways between the American culture and the Jewish culture.
  如果从文化的角度研究，和其作品中的主人公一样，贝娄本身也是这样一个晃来晃去的人，他始终在美国文化和犹太文化之间摇晃。
• The popular standard of truth always sways between leftism and rightism in the practice of value since it despises the speciality of subject consciousness, dims the value peculiarity of the truth.
  在我国社会生活中，流行的真理标准观轻视人的主体性，淡漠真理的价值性，影响到人们在价值实践中，总是避免不了左倾和右倾的摇摆。
• I cannot secure my aim, it sways of a natural drunkenness.
  我无法守住我的目标，它总是以一种自然的摇晃摆来摆去。
• A machine in an Ikea factory had pre-drilled some holes but had not made them deep enough and so, after much cursing over the screwdriver, I attached the legs so insecurely that the desk sways when touched.
  宜家（Ikea）工厂用机器预先打好了几个洞，但深度不够，因此，在诅咒了一番螺丝刀之后，我没有把桌腿固定好，以致桌子一碰就晃。
• My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying.
  我有我的思想&一片柔嫩的芳草，铺展于四面八方，你在它们的摇曳中能看出欣喜。
• A light that sways like the wooden horse from childhood memories.
  晃动摇曳的灯光，唤起木马童年的回忆。