rocking chair
英 [ˈrɒkɪŋ tʃeə(r)]
美 [ˈrɑːkɪŋ tʃer]
n. 摇椅
牛津词典
noun
- 摇椅
a chair with two curved pieces of wood under it that make it move backwards and forwards
柯林斯词典
- 摇椅
Arocking chairis a chair that is built on two curved pieces of wood so that you can rock yourself backwards and forwards when you are sitting in it.
英英释义
noun
- a chair mounted on rockers
双语例句
- There is a rocking chair in my bedroom.
我的卧室里有一张摇椅。 - Worry, it has been said, is often like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't necessarily get you anywhere.
有人曾说过烦恼如同一把摇椅：它给了人们一些事情做，但是却不一定会带来任何进展。 - The old wooden rocking chair, creaking endlessly against the floorboards, seems to work against my best efforts to get my infant daughter, and myself, some much-needed rest.
破旧的木摇椅在地板上不停地吱吱作响，似乎有意破坏我为哄小囡囡入睡和让自己也获得必要的休息所做的一切努力。 - He was rocking himself in a rocking chair.
他坐在摇椅上摇动着。他笔直地坐在椅上。 - A child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal ( such as a swan or duck).
孩子们的摇椅，座位建在被作成动物形象（如天鹅或鸭子）的两块平板之间。 - In the days that followed, Old John had a merry time watching his customers and neighbors get pounded by the hammer, rocked and bounced by the rocking chair, and thrashed by the bush.
在接下来的日子里，老约翰很开心地看到他的顾客和邻居们遭到锤子打，被摇椅摇晃，受树枝痛打。 - Perhaps walking the down the street one early summer's eve, you would have seen her sitting on the old oak rocking chair you got at a bargain price the day they auctioned off her life.
也许在某个初夏的黄昏，你在街上散步时，你就会看到她坐在旧橡树摇椅上，就是拍卖那天你以低廉的价格买下的那把摇椅。 - Her mother was sitting in the dark by the stove in her rocking chair
她母亲坐在炉边暗处的摇椅里。 - She would sit in her little rocking chair to suck her finger in the most unexpected corner.
她宁愿在最出人意料的角落里，坐在她的小摇椅上吮吸手指。 - Its said that worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you busy, but doesnt get you anywhere.
烦恼就像一把摇椅：它让你忙碌，但又让你原地踏步。