One way to hold it: a day with a lot of air moving — hair in your face, the washing snapping on the line, an umbrella turning inside out. English also uses it for talk that is all movement and no substance: plenty of air going past, nothing much carried in it.
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原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Windyname詞源 1
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A locality in the Liverpool Plains council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
Windyname詞源 2
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A female given name.
- “We’ve thought about leaving the state to find a job,” Sara March said, as she coddled her 7-month-old daughter, Windy.
- Lires, who enjoyed running and other sports, is survived by his wife, Theresa, and another daughter, Windy, 13, coroner’s officials said.
windyadj詞源 1/ˈwɪn.di/
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Accompanied by wind.
- It was a long and windy night.
- “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
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Empty and lacking substance.
- They made windy promises they would not keep.
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Long-winded; orally verbose.
- I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.
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informalFlatulent.
- The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
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slangNervous, frightened.
- The thing is he’s not windy, he’s a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.
windynoun詞源 1/ˈwɪn.di/
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A fart.
windyadj詞源 2/ˈwaɪndi/
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Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
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