splay
v[I, Ip, Tn, Tn.p]
~ (sth) (out) (cause sth to) open out and become wider at one end; (cause sth to) slant or slope (使某物)张开, 展开一端; (使某物)倾斜, 成斜面
The pipe splays (out) at one end. 管子一端呈喇叭形.
The plumber splayed the end of the pipe before fitting it over the next section. 铅管工把管口撑大後套在另一截管子上.
splayed feet/fingers/elbows, ie spread outwards 八字脚[张开的手指/向外撑的胳膊肘儿]
a splayed window, eg one in a thick wall with the opening on one side of the wall wider than that on the other 斜展形窗户(如开在厚墙上的, 窗口一面宽一面窄). splay, adj [usu attrib 通常作定语]
(esp of feet) broad, flat and turned outwards (尤指脚)扁平外翻的
He has splay feet. 他是外八字脚.
🗣️ 情景例句
What are your major and minor subjects?
你主修和副修什么科目?
Dinner is on me.
晚饭我请客。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.