Sinew

(n.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.

(n.) Muscle; nerve.

(n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.

(v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.

伊莱录入

• These arrow-heads have generally a shoulder where the arrow was set into the shaft, there to be bound tightly with sinew or fiber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• These they generally backed with sinew. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A sarcasm from her eyes or lips puts strength into every nerve and sinew I have. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Howe had the patience to wait, and in one way and another obtained the sinews of war to sue the infringers of his patents. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Canoes are made of logs hollowed out, or of birch bark stretched over a light frame, skilfully fastened with deers’ sinews and rendered water-tight by pitch. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At last came she whom Tarzan sought, with lithe sinews rolling beneath shimmering hide; fat and glossy came Sabor, the lioness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They long made use of cordage twisted from cotton and other fibers, or formed from the inner bark of various trees and the roots of others, and from the hairs, skins and sinews of animals. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There's power here, said Mr. Jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I feel their irons already tear my sinews! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I arose again, laughing at my forgetfulness, and soon had mastered once more the art of attuning my earthly sinews to these changed conditions. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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