Arch

(noun.) (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it.

(noun.) a passageway under a curved masonry construction; 'they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory'.

(noun.) a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet).

(noun.) a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening.

(verb.) form an arch or curve; 'her back arches'; 'her hips curve nicely'.

(adj.) naughtily or annoyingly playful; 'teasing and worrying with impish laughter'; 'a wicked prank' .

(adj.) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension .

(adj.) expert in skulduggery; 'an arch criminal' .

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• The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Napoleon, thwarted of a Russian princess, snubbed indeed by Alexander, turned to Austria, and married the arch-duchess Marie Louise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The speaker gave an arch little nod. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That is as true of all the minute creatures that swarmed and reproduced and died in the Arch?ozoic and Proterozoic seas, as it is of men to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These sagas, epics, and vedas do supply, in addition to arch?ology and philology, a third source of information about those vanished times. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the top of the crosses rise imperial arches, closing under a mound and cross. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Yes--the dry arches of Waterloo Bridge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In the building of the Cooper Institute in New York City in 1857 he was the first to employ such beams with brick arches to support the floors. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Vast arches, that may have been the gates of the city, are built in the same way. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• And yet its arches, its columns, and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A dull light placed in the deep recess of the window, made little impression on the arched room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was built in the Moorish fashion,--a square building enclosing a court-yard, into which the carriage drove through an arched gateway. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• His nose has been broken at some time or other, and is arched like a culvert now. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Mr. Fairlie arched his eyebrows and pursed up his lips in sarcastic surprise. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My companion let down the window, and I caught a glimpse of a low, arched doorway with a lamp burning above it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• All he saw was the trumpery parasol that arched its pinkness above her giggling head. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• In a low-arched and dusky passage, by which he endeavoured to work his way to the hall of the castle, he was interrupted by a female form. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Primitivo brought the pine branches and Robert Jordan stuck them through the snow into the unfrozen earth, arching them over the gun from either side. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But arching more and much finer. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• A young grey cat that had been sleeping on the sofa jumped down and stretched, rising on its long legs, and arching its slim back. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Thou with the big neck arching like the viaduct of my pueblo, he stopped. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• She could see him, in the mirror, as he stood there behind her, tall and over-arching--blond and terribly frightening. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The boat went on, under the arching trees, and over their tranquil shadows in the water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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