sickle
sickle 英 [ˈsɪkl] 美 [ˈsɪkəl]
n. 镰刀
名词复数:sickles
- A sickle is a tool with a handle and a curved metal blade that workers use for trimming grass or harvesting crops. Put a hammer next to a sickle and boom, there’s the symbol for communism.
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- n. 镰刀
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1. He swished the tops off weeds with a sickle.
他挥动镰刀嗖嗖地割掉了杂草的草尖。
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2. Family history. If your family has a history of an inherited anemia, such as sickle cell anemia, you also may be at increased risk of the condition.
家族史 如果你有亲人患有遗传性的贫血，比如镰刀细胞性贫血，那么你患有这种贫血的风险也会比一般人高。
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3. On Christmas Day in 1991, the Hammer and sickle Flag of the Soviet Union was lowered for the last time above the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian flag.
1991年圣诞节的那一天，以镰刀斧头为标志的苏联国旗在克里姆林宫最后一次地降了下来，并用俄罗斯国旗所取代。
- sickle (n.) Old English sicol, probably a West Germanic borrowing (Middle Dutch sickele, Dutch sikkel, Old High German sihhila, German Sichel) from Vulgar Latin *sicila, from Latin secula "sickle" (source also of Italian segolo "hatchet"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)). Applied to curved or crescent-shaped things from mid-15c. Sickle-cell anemia is first recorded 1922.
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