windmills

windmill['windmil]

• n.
  • 风车
  • 类似风车的东西(包括玩具风车等)
  • [口语]直升机
  • (飞机上的)风力涡轮；空气涡轮
  • 假想的敌人(或坏事)
• vt.
  • (使)似风车般的转动：

    to windmill one's arms

    转动双臂

  • 用风力转动
• vi.
  • 作风车般的传动
  • (螺旋桨)借风力旋转
• 短语:
  • fight (或 tilt at) windmills 和风车搏斗；同假想的敌人作战；和想像中的坏人坏事战斗 [出自唐吉诃德的故事]
  • flying windmill [美国俚语]直升机
  • throw one's cap over the windmill 见 cap

• attempt at
• profitablest
• aromatize
• chromatographically
• dogcatcher
• crosslight
• Acapulco gold
• as near as damn it
• for the worse
• millepede
• blooming idiot
• intortion
• nuclear-capable
• scroll saws
• redislocations
• truth-in-lending
• scoop net
• cercosporas
• gas / electricity / water etc supply
• corotational
• second stage launcher
• bottom-up processing
• megavoltage
• pop test
• loan offices
• endophilic
• Spörer's law
• Pyrenulaceae
• foresters
• predestining
• put the screws on (sb)
• live it up
• mousebird
• monitor board
• fleur de coin
• aeronautical climatology
• eau de vies
• right / left justified
• virtuecrats
• separatory funnel
• country store
• marten
• Zeeman splitting
• DPO
• chantey
• magnetic photo album
• as per
• defect cluster
• the crux
• centralist
• orchardist
• Eurovision
• observing
• naturalist
• edema
• at the earliest
• goose
• feel rotten
• nascently
• vitelluses
• delta matched antenna
• by the head
• a piece of change
• undersets
• arhythmia
• photograph
• benzothiazole
• cismontane
• peeriest
• swasher
• Indian elephants
• provisoes
• below sb’s notice
• comether
• spoon-feedings
• hawked
• chorion
• print sth↔off/out
• endosome
• tippets
• basic blocks
• electrostatic coalescence
• spatchcock
• frequency swing
• structure ground
• tubeless
• peaks
• explicate
• ardency
• smooth/rough to the touch
• horribly
• synchro-shutter
• on behalf of sb
• carry to extremes
• have a（或a good, half a）mind to do something
• safety chunk
• blue William
• birth rates
• jicarillas
• be in a good / bad etc place