stretch
stretch 英 [stretʃ] 美 [strɛtʃ]
v. 伸展,张开；竭尽所能 n. 伸展，延伸，一段；弹性
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- To stretch is to extend or lengthen something beyond the normal length. You stretched both your vacation and the truth when you called out of work on Monday saying your flight home from Ibiza was canceled.
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- v. 伸展,张开；竭尽所能
- n. 伸展，延伸，一段；弹性
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1. Is there any way of stretching shoes?
有什么办法能把鞋撑大吗？
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2. This sweater has stretched.
这件毛衣给撑得变形了。
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3. Make sure that the rope is stretched tight.
务必要把绳子拉紧。
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4. He stretched and yawned lazily.
他伸了伸懒腰，打了个哈欠。
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5. She stretched across the table for the butter.
她伸手到桌子那头去拿黄油。
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6. Fields and hills stretched out as far as we could see.
放眼望去，田野山丘绵延不绝。
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7. The talks look set to stretch into a second week.
看来谈判十有八九要延续到下个星期了。
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8. I need a new car, but my savings won't stretch to it.
我需要一辆新车，但我的积蓄不够。
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9. We can't take on any more work—we're fully stretched as it is.
我们不能再接受其他工作了，现在我们已经满负荷了。
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10. I need a job that will stretch me.
我需要一份能让我充分发挥才智的工作。
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11. He admitted that he had maybe stretched the trutha little.
他承认可能有点言过其实了。
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12. a particularly dangerous stretch of road
特别危险的路段
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13. They worked in four-hour stretches.
他们工作四小时一班。
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14. She used to read for hours at a stretch.
她以前看书常常连看几小时。
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15. He did a ten-year stretch for fraud.
他因欺诈罪服刑十年。
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16. We got out of the car and had agood stretch.
我们下车好好舒展了一下身体。
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17. You need a material with plenty of stretch in it.
你需要一种弹性很大的布料。
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18. The campaign has entered its final stretch.
竞选已进入最后冲刺阶段。
- stretch (n.) late 12c., "expanse of land;" 1540s, "act of stretching," from stretch (v.); meaning "unbroken continuance of some activity" is first recorded 1660s; meaning "straightaway of a race course" (as in home stretch) is recorded from 1839.
- stretch (v.) Old English streccan (transitive and intransitive) "to stretch, spread out, prostrate; reach, extend" (past tense strehte, past participle streht), from Proto-Germanic *strakjanan (source also of Danish strække, Swedish sträcka, Old Frisian strekka, Old High German strecchan, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Old High German, German strecken "to stretch, draw out"), perhaps a variant of the root of stark, or else from PIE root *strenk- "tight, narrow; pull tight, twist" (see string (n.)).
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