【stretch音标】 英[stretʃ] 美[stretʃ]
【单词释义】 stretch是什么意思：
v.伸展；张开；变大，拉长；撑大；伸展肢体；伸出，伸长；充分利用；使紧张；放宽，放松n.伸展；延伸；紧张；弹性adj.可伸缩的；弹性的
[单词分级] 大学英语四级词汇
[单词复数] stretches [第三人称单数] stretches
[单词现在分词] stretching
[单词过去式] stretched
[单词过去分词] stretched
【stretch形近词/近似词】
retch n. 反胃，呕吐 v. 作呕，反胃；恶心
sketch n.素描，速写，草图；简述；幽默短剧，滑稽小品 v.草拟；速写；画素描；简述
fetch v. 拿来；取来；带来
【单词例句】
◇ The smell of sausage arose into the wolf's nose. He sniffed and looked down, stretching his neck so long that he could no longer hold himself, and he began to slide.
香肠的气味飘进了狼的鼻孔，它使劲地用鼻子闻呀闻，并且朝下张望着，到最后把脖子伸得太长了，身子开始往下滑。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand.
火烧得多么旺啊！小姑娘刚刚伸出她的一双脚，打算在这么好的火前暖一下的时候，哎呀！火焰忽然熄灭了！火炉也不见了。她只剩下手里捏着那烧过的火柴。
◇ She looked around and saw a frog. He was stretching his thick ugly head out of the water.
她四处看了一下，看到了一只青蛙，它那肥厚而又丑陋的脑袋正伸出水面。
---- The Frog Prince
◇ At the church door stood an old soldier with a crutch, and with a wonderfully long beard, which was more red than white, and he bowed to the ground, and asked the old lady whether he might dust her shoes. And Karen stretched out her little foot.
教堂门口有一个残废的老兵，拄着一根拐杖站着。他留着一把很奇怪的长胡子。这胡子与其说是白的，还不如说是红的——因为它本来就是红的。他把腰几乎弯到地上去了；他回老太太说，他可不可以擦擦她鞋子上的灰尘。珈伦也把她的小脚伸出来。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ First, make sure you're wearing well-fitting exercise clothing and sturdy shoes. Before getting on the machine, warm up with stretches and range-of-motion exercises, said Clark Stevenson, owner of Treadmill Doctor, a treadmill repair company based in Memphis, Tennessee. Then step onto the machine and securely attach the safety key to your shirt. If you should become at risk of falling off of the treadmill, the safety key will immediately turn off the machine.
首先，你要确保自己穿上合体的运动服和结实的鞋子。总部在美国田纳西州孟菲斯市的跑步机修理公司“跑步机医生”的老板克拉克·史蒂芬森指出，上跑步机前要先做几组拉伸和全范围关节运动来热身；上跑步机后要先把安全按钮牢牢固定在自己穿的T恤上。如果你要从跑步机上摔下来，安全按钮会立刻让机器停止运转。
---- How to use treadmills safely
◇ Past perception wasn't all bad. The union between marriage and the now-standard ring placement can be traced back to second-century Egyptians who falsely believed that "a certain most delicate nerve" began in the fourth left finger and stretched directly to the heart, according to the Greek scholar Appian.
古人也不全都认为左手不好。婚姻和左手无名指的关联可以追溯到2世纪的埃及。希腊学者阿皮安解释说，当时埃及人误以为“某个最脆弱的神经”从左手第四指开始，一直延伸到心脏。
---- Why are wedding rings worn on the left hand?
◇ She answered, "Dear father, do with me what you will. I am your child," and with that she stretched forth both hands and let her father chop them off.
姑娘回答说：“亲爱的父亲，尽管砍吧，我是你的孩子。”说着，她伸出了双手，让父亲砍下了。
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ A beautiful girl,by the name of Clytle,was so fond of his beauty and glory that from dawn to dusk she knelt on the ground,her hands out stretched towards the sun god,and her eyes looked at his golden wheeled carriage racing across the bluesky.
一位名叫克里提的美丽少女迷恋于他的英俊潇洒,跪在地上,从黎明到黄昏,双手伸向太阳神。她凝视着那辆金质马车在蔚蓝的天空驰骋。
---- Apollo