Sheer

(verb.) cause to sheer; 'She sheered her car around the obstacle'.

(adv.) directly; 'he fell sheer into the water'.

(adv.) straight up or down without a break.

校对:杜鲁门

• Nay, he replied, 'suppose' is not the word--I know it; but you will be found out, and by sheer force of argument you will never prevail. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I resolved to try it in sheer despair of knowing what better to do. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The other seized the die, and clenched his teeth upon it in sheer rage, as if he would bite it in pieces. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He hated the sheer African thing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Hor Vastus turned in the direction indicated by Carthoris, and as his eyes fell upon me he was like to have collapsed from sheer surprise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• At the sheer rock where the road went out of sight they saw him stop and lean against the rock and fire back up the road. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In the distance a slope sheered down from a peak, with many black rock-slides. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She held on to him as they went sheering down over the keen slope. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And he found what he desired, a perfect long, fierce sweep, sheering past the foot of a rock and into the trees at the base. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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