stilt
stilt
noun
on stilts
noun
- either of a pair of upright poles with supports for the feet enabling the user to walk at a distance above the ground
高跷
■each of a set of posts or piles supporting a building
（建筑的）支撑物，支柱
■a small, flat, three-pointed support for ceramic ware in a kiln
（在窑里支撑陶瓷制品的小型扁平三点）承坯架 - a long-billed wading bird with predominantly black and white plumage and very long slender reddish legs
长腿鹬 - Family Recurvirostridae: two genera, in particular Himantopus, and several species
反嘴鹬科： 2属，尤指长腿鹬属，数种
on stilts
- supported by stilts
踩着高跷 - (of language) bombastic or stilted
（语言）夸张做作的（地)，不自然的（地）
he is talking nonsense on stilts, and he knows it.
他正在夸张地胡说八道，这一点他自己很清楚。
- Middle English: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stelt and German Stelze. Sense 2 dates from the late 18th cent
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- seecatch n.阿拉斯加成年雄海狗
- seed n.种子,子孙,起源,（尤指网球比赛）种子选手 vt.播种,抽出种子选手,除去…之种子,确定（某人）为种子选手 vi.结籽,（种子）繁殖
- seedage n.种子式（指植物的种子繁殖方式）
- seedbed n.苗床，<喻>温床，发源地
- seedcake n.（种子榨油后留下的）油饼,籽饼
- seedcase n.果皮
- seedcorn n.<英>谷种，<美>玉米种
- seedeater n.食籽雀
- seeder n.播种机，播种人，去核器
- seedily adv.破衣烂衫地,肮脏地,不体面地,心情不佳地
- seedleaf n.（用于制雪茄的）宽叶烟草
- seedless adj.无核的
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