akimbo
akimbo 英 [əˈkɪmbəʊ] 美 [əˈkɪmboʊ]
adv. 两手叉腰 adj. 两手叉腰的
名词复数:akimboes
- When you put your hands on your hips and your elbows are sticking out, your arms are akimbo, like when you stand in the bathroom, arms akimbo while yelling, “Who left the toilet seat up?”
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- adv. 两手叉腰
- adj. 两手叉腰的
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1. Other competitors like akimbo brought similar boxes to market—and failed.
其他竞争对手如Akimbo公司把类似的盒子带到市场上，失败了。
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2. It was in one of these that our word akimbo unexpectedly appeared more than 200 years earlier than the next citation in the 1600s.
就是在这些文献中，我们的单词akimbo出乎意料的早出现了200多年，下一个引用则是在17世纪了。
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3. The basket being large and heavy, Car had placed it for convenience of porterage on the top of her head, where it rode on in jeopardized balance as she walked with arms akimbo.
篮子又大又重，卡尔为了走路方便些，就把篮子放在头顶上顶着，当她两手叉腰走路的时候，篮子就在她的头顶上危险地摇晃着。
- akimbo (adv., adj.) "with the hands on the hips and the elbows bent outward at sharp angles," c. 1400, in kenebowe, of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle English phrase in keen bow "at a sharp angle" (with keen in its Middle English sense of "sharp" + bow "arch"), or from a Scandinavian word akin to Icelandic kengboginn "bow-bent," but this seems not to have been used in this exact sense. Middle English Dictionary compares Old French chane/kane/quenne "can, pot, jug." Many languages use a teapot metaphor for this, such as Modern French faire le pot a deux anses "to play the pot with two handles."
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