wind (up)

• 绞起

英英释义

名词 wind:

1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

2. a tendency or force that influences events

3. breath

4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

5. an indication of potential opportunity

6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath

7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

8. the act of winding or twisting

动词 wind:

1. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

2. extend in curves and turns

3. arrange or or coil around

4. catch the scent of; get wind of

5. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

6. form into a wreath

7. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help