Stretch

(noun.) extension to or beyond the ordinary limit; 'running at full stretch'; 'by no stretch of the imagination'; 'beyond any stretch of his understanding'.

(noun.) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent.

(noun.) a straightaway section of a racetrack.

(noun.) the capacity for being stretched.

(noun.) a large and unbroken expanse or distance; 'a stretch of highway'; 'a stretch of clear water'.

(noun.) an unbroken period of time during which you do something; 'there were stretches of boredom'; 'he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary'.

(verb.) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body; 'Stretch your legs!'; 'Extend your right arm above your head'.

(verb.) extend one's body or limbs; 'Let's stretch for a minute--we've been sitting here for over 3 hours'.

(verb.) become longer by being stretched and pulled; 'The fabric stretches'.

(verb.) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly; 'Stretch the limits'; 'stretch my patience'; 'stretch the imagination'.

(verb.) pull in opposite directions; 'During the Inquisition, the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack'.

(verb.) lie down comfortably; 'To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass'.

(verb.) occupy a large, elongated area; 'The park stretched beneath the train line'.

(adj.) easily stretched; 'stretch hosiery' .

(adj.) having an elongated seating area; 'a stretch limousine' .

乔茜录入

• But you can imagine how surprised I was, Mr. Holmes, when, on my return on the Monday, I saw the same man on the same stretch of road. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She was exposed to every stare, she passed on through a stretch of torment. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• For what did I say to myself arter having amused myself with that there stretch of a comic idea, as a sort of a playful game? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my glove dreadfully, began Meg, whose gloves were a tender point with her. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I ventured to stretch my hand to the bonnet-grec which lay in grim repose on the window-sill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He _could not_ walk on, till daylight came again; and here he stretched himself close to the wall--to undergo new torture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• St. Clare was stretched on a bamboo lounge in the verandah, solacing himself with a cigar. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sir Percival looked seriously embarrassed and distressed, Mr. Fairlie stretched out his lazy legs on his velvet footstool, and said, Dear Marian! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• After I had eaten I was greatly invigorated, but feeling the need of rest I stretched out upon the silks and was soon asleep. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Now, Quimbo, said Legree, as he stretched himself down in the sitting-room, you jest go and walk that Tom up here, right away! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Tom stretched himself out on a box, and there, as he lay, he heard, ever and anon, a smothered sob or cry from the prostrate creature,--O! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I was just stretching my legs, when out bounced another woman on me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She was so alone, with the level, unliving field of the water stretching beneath her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Which contained--' interposed Monks, stretching forward. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• In effect, I am of no country,' said Mr Blandois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: 'I descend from half-a-dozen countries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Watson, in San Francisco, over a wire stretching 3,400 miles across the continent. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A reef of rocks, black and rough, stretches far into the sea. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To run my hand along the Chain, when found, until I come to the part of it which stretches over the edge of the rocks, down into the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• An extremely wide flank-membrane stretches from the corners of the jaw to the tail, and includes the limbs with the elongated fingers. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Even the land about Chat Moss was bought up and improved, and all along the line what had been waste stretches began to blossom into towns and villages. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It seemed as if the bonfire-makers were standing in some radiant upper story of the world, detached from and independent of the dark stretches below. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She goes down from the block, stops, looks wistfully back,--her daughter stretches her hands towards her. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I reckon, my dinner hour stretches all o'er the day; yo're pretty sure of finding me. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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