Strand

(noun.) line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable.

(noun.) a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; 'he tried to pick up the strands of his former life'; 'I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously'.

(noun.) a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels.

(noun.) a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides).

(verb.) drive (a vessel) ashore.

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• The load is supported by 6 strands, and each strand bears one sixth of the load. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Thank you, said Holmes, I only wished to ask you how you would go from here to the Strand. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A good shop for the latter was in the Strand--somewhere in that part which has been rebuilt since. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• One workman is seen cutting a long strand from a hide which he turns round as he cuts, while another man walks backward with this, twisting it as he goes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It requested his attendance, within an hour's time, at a house in Northumberland Street, Strand, which he had never had occasion to enter before. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Strand postmark, and dispatched ten thirty-six, said Holmes, reading it over and over. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The load is supported by 6 strands, and each strand bears one sixth of the load. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It would have been had I been a Martian, but I had to smile at the puny strands that confined my wrists. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was braided according to a calendar system--the more important the day the more numerous the strands in the braid. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In one the strands are formed on one type of machine and twisted into a rope on another. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• After being twisted the strands are wound around reels in readiness for the second, or laying process. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now the open mesh cane fabric, having diagonal strands, and other varieties, are made rapidly by machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In case of shipwreck it is often employed to carry a line from the shore to a stranded vessel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Three wires stranded together ran from the central office to each instrument. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Happily this change does not leave me stranded; it but hurries into premature execution designs long formed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I saw him for the third time in a wrecked ship, stranded on a wild, sandy shore. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In addition to the regular force, there was an extra force of two or three operators, and some stranded ones, who were a burden to us, for board was high. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She was content to lie on the shore where fortune had stranded her--and you could see that the career of this old couple was over. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• There must have been a constant risk of stranding. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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