首页英语词典strandstrand英英释意

strand

英[strænd] 美[strænd]
  • n. 线;串;海滨
  • vt. 使搁浅;使陷于困境;弄断;使落后
  • vi. 搁浅
  • n. (Strand)人名;(英、芬、丹、挪、瑞典)斯特兰德;(德)施特兰德

英英释意


1. a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;
"he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"
"I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
2. line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
3. a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
"a string of beads"
"a strand of pearls";
4. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
5. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)