| 单词 | unswept |
| 释义 | unˈswept, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
a. That has not been swept.
1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon xii. 3 A house-room long unswept will gather dust. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. iii. 126 The Dust on antique Time would lye vnswept. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Morals, Of Anger vii. ii. 73 A spot upon a Dish.., or an unswept Hearth. 1683Dryden Life Plutarch in P.'s Lives (1700) I. 24 To these he added a curious collection.., that he might leave nothing unswept behind him. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xix, His head [was] like a smoke-jack;—the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it. 1821Lamb Wks. (1908) I. 511 The intolerable crash of the unswept cinder, betwixt your foot and the marble. 1852James Pequinillo II. 63, I have left nothing unswept for want of a broom.
transf.1851Carlyle in Froude Life (1884) II. 84 The town had a dirty unswept look still.
b. Of the wing of an aircraft: not swept-back (see swept ppl. a. 3), not having sweepback or sweep-forward (see sweep- 3).
1946Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. VI. 95 The application of sweep-back to wing shapes implies a swept V-shaped wing, in which the centre section is effectively unswept. 1977R.A.F. News 11–24 May 6 (Advt.), Wingspan: 63 ft. unswept. |
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