Curve

(noun.) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter.

(noun.) a line on a graph representing data.

(noun.) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes.

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• We did not go very far along the road, for Holmes stopped the instant that the curve hid us from the landlord's view. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Her glance swept the horse-shoe curve of boxes. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The wind was down or we were protected by mountains that bounded the curve the lake had made. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Mr. Tupman looked at him very hard again; but there was not a wink in his eye, or a curve in his face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We had to bank the tracks up to an angle of thirty degrees before we could turn the curve and stay on. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Lily had slept well, and her bath had filled her with a pleasant glow, which was becomingly reflected in the clear curve of her cheek. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It had the curves and indentations in it still, where it had been twined and bound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• One of Plato's associates, working under his direct ion, investigated the curves produced by cutting cones of different kinds in a certain plane. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This model showed itself capable of traveling at high speed on a single rail, rounding sharp curves and even traversing with ease a wire cable hung in the air. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At one point the grade dropped some sixty feet in a distance of three hundred, and the curves were of recklessly short radius. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I protested at the rate of speed over the sharp curves, designed to show the power of the engine, but Edison said they had done it often. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• These curves--the ellipse, the parabola, the hyperb ola--play a large part in the subsequent history of astronomy and mechanics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• 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.
• In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Other stone-cutting machines had for their objects the cutting and moulding the edges of tables, mantels and slabs; and the cutting of circular and other curved work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This is the case: I observed that the young flower-peduncles of the above Maurandia curved themselves a little towards the side which was touched. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The cock, being curved like a snake, was called the serpentine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Later, the bowl became more pointed, the drop was replaced by a tongue, and the handle, after 1760, instead of slightly curving to the front at the end, reversed the position. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It was impossible, from that position, to see the fall, but I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Sometimes they cut spiral strips from the curving horns of a mountain sheep, and steamed them straight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Here, in a clearing upon the green slope of a hill, stood a long, low, stone house, approached by a curving drive running through the fields. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The view was pleasant; a highroad curving round the edge of a low lake, under the trees. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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