| 词汇 | pear-shaped |
| 释义 | pear-shapedWord family nounpearmongerpearadjectivepear-shaped ˈpear-shaped adjectiveadj 1 go pear-shaped British EnglishBrE informal if an activity or situation goes pear-shaped, it goes wrong 有问题；出毛病 The whole thing went pear-shaped. 整件事出了问题。 Examples from the Corpus go pear-shaped• Meg plays Alice, a cheerful hippy in the minutes before everything goes pear-shaped. 2. someone who is pear-shaped has wide hips and a fairly small chest 〔体形〕梨形的〔指腰部和臀部宽、胸部窄的体形〕 Examples from the Corpus pear-shaped• Meg plays Alice, a cheerful hippy in the minutes before everything goes pear-shaped.• The new lands he discovered convinced him that the earth was not round but pear-shaped.• Bowman forced his fingers to hunt around, and presently discovered the pear-shaped bulb.• When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement.• From the low ceiling hung large, black metal frames with little pear-shaped leather bags and black metal pipes at right angles.• I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped, like the one Nicky had shown me.• Outwardly, Donna, the classic pear-shaped woman, laughed about her legs, but finally she quit exercising. |
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