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

• If beauty sways interviewers, the beautiful will, by and large, have more successful careers than the ugly& even in careers for which beauty is not a necessary qualification.
  如果美丽会打动面试官，那么从总体上看，美丽的人比丑陋的人有更多事业成功&即便在那些美丽非必须条件的行业。
• As the heavy cars pass, the bridge sways.
  当重型车辆经过，这座桥摇来摇去。
• You can see this in the class: A mother in pink sweats and a T-shirt holds her baby facing outward in her arms and sways her hips slowly to the rhythm of jingling bells.
  你可以在课上看到这样一个场面：一位身穿粉红色运动裤和一件T恤的母亲将怀里的宝宝脸朝外，随着叮当作响的铃铛的节奏慢慢摆动着她的臀部。
• 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。
• A light that sways like the wooden horse from childhood memories.
  晃动摇曳的灯光，唤起木马童年的回忆。
• We note that the structure is symmetrical and that sways represent antisymmetrical loading.
  注意结构是对称的，而节点线位移表示反对称荷载。
• Sways leisurely under the water;
  油油的在水里招摇；
• Industry competitiveness is the main factor that sways Fujian's present and future economic development.
  产业竞争力是影响当前和未来福建经济发展的主要因素。
• It is in crowded or close races where ranked-choice voting most sways outcomes, says Corey Cook, a politics professor at the University of San Francisco.
  旧金山大学的一位政治学教授库克说道，优先选择投票制通常是在比较密集或接近的竞选者中左右结果的。
• 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。