Mangle

(noun.) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers.

(verb.) alter so as to make unrecognizable; 'The tourists murdered the French language'.

(verb.) press with a mangle; 'mangle the sheets'.

校对:莫蒂默

• If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She had seen him handle tools that he had borrowed to mend the mangle, or to knock a broken piece of furniture together, in a surprising manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The old-style mangle had a box, weighted with stone, which was reciprocated on rollers, and was run back and forth upon the clothes spread upon a polished table beneath. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Nor Our Johnny, he scarce know'd either, for sometimes when the mangle lumbers he says, “Me choking, Granny! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I can take only three, on account of the Mangle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Then the old-fashioned, or the new-fashioned mangle is brought into play. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If wounded, the surgeon dresses his mangled limb with rubber bandages, and when he gets well he has a rubber cushion on the end of his crutch, or on the foot of his artificial leg. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The sight of the mangled and dying men which met my eye as I boarded the ship was sickening. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• All of them were scalped and otherwise horribly mangled. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A mangled, painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• See, in the mangled corpses of the last remains of the tribe, how effectually we have afforded it to them. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• How long has this new set-to been in mangling then? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Sloppy they left behind, relieving his overcharged breast with a paroxysm of mangling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Tis very nonsense of an old man to prattle so when life and death's in mangling. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

编辑:陌莉