sways

英 [sweɪz]

美 [sweɪz]

v.  (使)摇摆，摇动; 说服; 使相信; 使动摇
sway的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 摇晃;摇摆;摆动
  When people or thingssway, they lean or swing slowly from one side to the other.
  1. The people swayed back and forth with arms linked...
     人们手挽手，前后摇晃着。
  2. The whole boat swayed and tipped.
     整条船摇晃后翻倒了。
  3. ...a coastal highway lined with tall, swaying palm trees.
     两旁有摇曳的高大棕榈树的沿海公路
• VERB 影响;左右
  If youare swayed bysomeone or something, you are influenced by them.
  1. Don't ever be swayed by fashion.
     永远不要受潮流的影响。
  2. ...last minute efforts by the main political parties to sway the voters in tomorrow's local elections.
     主要政党为说服选民在明天的地方选举中投自己一票而作出的最后努力
• PHRASE 占统治地位;具有重大影响力
  If someone or somethingholds sway, they have great power or influence over a particular place or activity.
  1. South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway...
     阿斯克以南盛行的似乎是一种完全不同的方式。
  2. The 'families' are the basic units, each holding sway over a recognised territory.
     “家庭”是基本单位，每一个家庭都控制着自己受人认可的领地。
• PHRASE 在…的控制下;在…的支配下;在…的影响下
  If you areunder the sway ofsomeone or something, they have great influence over you.
  1. How mothers keep daughters under their sway is the subject of the next five sections.
     在接下来的 5 节将探讨母亲怎样管教女儿。

双语例句

• Abrupt yelling, tearful bouncing, dancing in dire sadness and singing in utmost agitation, the wind sways and swirls thousands of flags which embody the enthusiasm and resplendence;
  突喊，哭跃，悲哀极度的舞蹈，“血脉愤兴”的狂歌，挥动着，旋转着那些表现热情灿烂的千万个旗帜；
• The popular standard of truth always sways between leftism and rightism in the practice of value since it despises the speciality of subject consciousness, dims the value peculiarity of the truth.
  在我国社会生活中，流行的真理标准观轻视人的主体性，淡漠真理的价值性，影响到人们在价值实践中，总是避免不了左倾和右倾的摇摆。
• As the posture sways, body balance chaged with the swaying indicator, fixed on the centre of head.
  人体姿态发生变化，其身体的重心也将发生相应改变，固定在被试者头部中央的视标也发生相应变化。
• My island sways in the wind.
  我的心岛也在海风中使劲摇移。
• My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying.
  我有我的思想&一片柔嫩的芳草，铺展于四面八方，你在它们的摇曳中能看出欣喜。
• A machine in an Ikea factory had pre-drilled some holes but had not made them deep enough and so, after much cursing over the screwdriver, I attached the legs so insecurely that the desk sways when touched.
  宜家（Ikea）工厂用机器预先打好了几个洞，但深度不够，因此，在诅咒了一番螺丝刀之后，我没有把桌腿固定好，以致桌子一碰就晃。
• Here, the crimson skirt of a tribeswoman sways during a performance at the Ndumu Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.
  这里，一位部落的妇女穿深红色裙子摇摆，当一个表演在恩杜穆游戏储备在库哇语祖鲁语――南非的纳塔尔。
• The truck sways wildly, careening down narrow mountain roads.
  卡车疯狂地左摇右晃，从狭窄的山路上急冲而下。
• Since the aesthetics of reception sways the foundation of the traditional translation theory, its introduction and application to translation field meet a great resistance.
  由于接受美学从根本上动摇了传统的翻译理论及观点，将其引入并应用到翻译理论界，其所遭遇的阻力可想而知。
• Through a basic statistical analysis of Shanghai copper contract continuous sequence, the paper finds that the peak thick tail in the returns ratio sequence, which sways from the normal distribution for its lever effect.
  通过对我国沪铜期货合约连续序列的基本统计分析发现，收益率序列存在尖峰厚尾性，不服从正态分布，还具有杠杆效应。