| 单词 | vertical surface |
| 例句 | “But he can run across just about anything. Water, vertical surfaces, small mountains—none of that bothers him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Shanghai Taste’s decor consists of a mirrored wall and paper sheets affixed to virtually every vertical surface, each one describing dishes in Chinese characters only. Shanghai Taste review: The virtuoso of soup dumplings 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Real snow does not land on a smooth vertical surface like a wall, but this snow did ... until it slowly started to slide down, leaving a thin, wet trail in its wake, like a snail. Modern Love: In Marriage, Beware of Big Boxes 2013-12-19T20:29:14Z The side-by-side murals, a mishmash of colors and styles, cover nearly every vertical surface, including garage doors, window bars, even trash bins. Murals turn blighted L.A. alleys into an outdoor art gallery 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Almost every vertical surface is covered with paintings and photographs, and every horizontal surface with books and letters. A glimpse of '60s Paris 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Places in cities are made by their horizontal surfaces, such as the linear park, and by the vertical surfaces of the different buildings around them. Utopia-on-Thames? 2012-11-11T00:05:54Z The side-by-side works, a mishmash of colors and styles, cover nearly every vertical surface, including garage doors, window bars, even dumpsters. How these 75-plus murals have turned three L.A. alleys into an outdoor art gallery 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z And for good reason — in a small kitchen, it's smart to use this vertical surface to store things. 10 ways to make a tiny kitchen work for you 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z One note of caution: Don't cover every vertical surface with storage or the room will start to look crowded. Lessons I learned from renovating my small kitchen 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z That would explain why the vertical surfaces, too, are white in what is now 1950s East London. TV review: The Snowman and The Snowdog; Doctor Who: The Snowmen; Call The Midwife 2012-12-25T20:45:00Z The central visual here is a boardwalk stretching back into darkness; occasionally, video of waves appears on nearby vertical surfaces. ‘Last of the Whyos’: It’s a bold story, but it doesn’t budge 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Use a gel remover so it will cling to the vertical surface, and check the label to make sure the remover is okay to use with the type of surround you have. Advice | How to remove shower doors and patch the holes left in the tile 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z While it is more commonly applied to vertical surfaces, it’s also delightful on a ceiling. Designing a space? Look up — the ceiling has potential 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z As ice melts from these vertical surfaces, the terrace walls migrate horizontally, Scambos says. Antarctica’s Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z It may help to imagine a vertical surface, such as a wall in your house. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a piece that’s called ‘Life Forms,’ which I constructed using some old electrical wire that looked like little creepies crawling up a vertical surface,” he said. Artist, gallery president survives pandemic with engineering mindset 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Give these birds a vertical surface to clamber up, and they cycle between left foot, right foot and beak as if their mouths were another limb. Scientists Found an Animal That Walks on Three Limbs. It’s a Parrot. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Tree-dwelling snakes use the concertina mode to climb: They wrap around a vertical surface with two separate parts of their body while sliding between them. Guam’s invasive tree snakes loop themselves into lassos to reach their feathered prey 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z So conservationists are building big chimney-like birdhouses as summer homes for swifts, which can rest only by using their toes as grappling hooks on a rough, vertical surface. Fake chimneys for birds that need vertical hollows to rest 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z She quickly finds the nearest vertical surface and, with the aid of gravity, continues to evacuate the water from your blood. Man v mosquito: what to do about our biggest killer 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z For nervous homeowners, he said, “the backsplash is often the best place to put marble, because it’s hard to spill on a vertical surface.” How to select the countertop that’s right for you | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Those scaly surface rhizomes, the so-called rabbit’s foot part of the plant’s morphology, allow the fern to grow in trees and on rocks and other vertical surfaces, taking in moisture and nutrients without soil. A Seattle paralegal kept a rabbit’s foot fern growing in her office windowsill for more than 30 years 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z These organisms will grow on vertical surfaces, too, such as siding and brick. Analysis | What to do when your air ducts leave a room too cold or stuffy 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z In fact, according to Healthline, the ants attack in “swarms,” quickly climbing their way up legs and other “vertical surfaces.” North Carolina woman says fire ants 'exploded' all over, delivering painful stings that nearly killed her 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The pale vertical surfaces also provide contrast to the rich and bold hues found elsewhere. New Corporate-Office Design: No Ping-Pong, But Not Uptight 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The reason for the crashes is that when a bat is flying toward a smooth, vertical surface at an angle, the surface reflects the bat’s high-frequency sounds away from the bat, not toward it. Bats crash into buildings because smooth surfaces trick their echolocation 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Smooth vertical surfaces are rare in bats' natural habitat. Bats 'tricked' into flying into buildings - BBC News 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s not until a bat gets very close to a flat, vertical surface that some of its calls end up hitting the plate at a 90-degree angle and bouncing right back. Why Bats Crash Into Buildings 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Smooth vertical surfaces like windows reflect sound waves away from bats—meaning bats can't 'see' windows and similar obstacles with echolocation. Windows Vex Bats' Echolocating Abilities 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But a sleek vertical surface reflects away the echoes, fooling bats into recognizing it as an open flyway. Why do bats crash into smooth surfaces? They never ‘see’ them, this video reveals 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In the future, the researchers want to explore how bats use both echolocation and vision to navigate around smooth, vertical surfaces, the Times says. Bats crash into buildings because smooth surfaces trick their echolocation 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Experienced archers may even aim just below their prey on a vertical surface to knock it straight down into the water instead of farther away on land. Fishes Use Problem-Solving and Invent Tools 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z When a bat approaches a smooth, vertical surface from an angle — as it would when turning a corner in a rectangular tunnel — its echolocating calls mostly reflect away from it. Why Bats Crash Into Buildings 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The Trump atrium is five stories tall, and most of its jutting corners and vertical surfaces are covered with mirrors, fake-gold panels, or marble tiles the color of gastrointestinal inflammation. The Psychological Insights of Trump Tower 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z From this small vertical surface, seen as if in silhouette, a black face stares. Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Males performed a handstand against a vertical surface and urinated. Panda passion: Study reveals secret of fruitful captive breeding 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z You might want to sit down before you watch this video of a daredevil mountain biker essentially defying gravity and riding on a nearly vertical surface of a mountain. Watch This Fearless Biker Ride on the Side of a Mountain 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z They latch on to stable vertical surfaces — trees, telephone poles, rural mailboxes — to shed their exoskeletons, a tricky gymnastic maneuver. One Place Cicadas Get a Warm Welcome 2013-06-02T20:01:41Z Attached to small objects — such as the treads of a toy bulldozer — it successfully stuck them to vertical surfaces underwater. How Do Beetles Walk Underwater? 2012-08-10T18:45:05.197Z "These leaf beetles, bearing specialized hairy attachment devices, are able to adhere to and walk along various vertical surfaces and even ceilings," explained Dr Naoe Hosoda from the National Institute for Material Science, Japan. Secrets of sticky feet revealed 2012-08-09T08:33:37Z But, the species to beat is a tiny mite that has been shown holding forces of up to and even pull on a vertical surface. Human vs ant: Who is stronger? 2012-08-03T00:48:57Z The architects' solution was to illuminate almost every vertical surface around the entrances to the hotel. City Room: Exiled From Times Square, Rambunctious Sculptures Seek a New Home 2012-06-19T20:31:46Z Mr. Lemon proved to be an ideal vertical surface as the cicadas, unaware of their celebrity, nimbly made their way up his crisp white shirt. One Place Cicadas Get a Warm Welcome 2013-06-02T20:01:41Z To insure a close contact of the gib against the vertical surface of the slide, the screws b are placed in a line slightly outside of the line of the screws a. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The roots and stalks of such grassy vegetation are generally agreed to have helped produce the columnar structure which enables the loess to stand with almost vertical surfaces. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z The two boys scrambled down almost vertical surfaces, edged along narrow ledges, slid down easier inclines, and finally came to the rim of beach about the lake. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z Nests are secured by means of a salivary cement to vertical surfaces, usually near the inside tops of chimneys in dwellings of man, but occasionally in abandoned buildings and hollow trees. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z Spending the day with your arm outstretched, manipulating tiny controls on a vertical surface is awkward and exhausting. State of the Art: Upgrading the Lion Means Embracing the iPad 2011-07-20T16:32:37Z Raptor chicks like red-tails really have the ability to take this to the extreme, often painting vertical surfaces with a substance that will harden like cement very quickly. City Room: Answers About Pip and Violet, Part 2 2011-05-26T18:01:30Z "Every one of our walls look like we mowed in here," waving at the layers of mud and grass and debris surreally caking the vertical surfaces. Joplin stunned by deadly tornado's power 2011-05-24T05:43:08Z Tarantulas eject silk through their feet to anchor themselves to slippery, vertical surfaces, say scientists. Get a grip: Tarantulas eject silk from feet 2011-05-16T04:06:59Z My bed for the moment presented itself as a vertical surface which I could not conceive to be a resting place.... Food Poisoning A few feet below the upper edge were several man-like figures clinging to the vertical surface. Warrior of the Dawn He would be very much like an ant climbing down the three stone steps at home, except that he wasn't as sure-footed as an ant on vertical surfaces. The Golden Skull By their aid the bat is able to maintain its hold when creeping over smooth vertical surfaces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Furthermore, it is used as a prop when the mouse is climbing a vertical surface. Natural History of the Brush Mouse (Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas With Description of a New Subspecies He was still clambering gingerly down the nearly vertical surface. Tales of Space and Time A tool designed to indicate horizontal or vertical surfaces. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations No grassy sward, no vegetation carpets the horizontal or vertical surfaces with green. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People In places great blocks have fallen off, leaving smooth vertical surfaces, extending sometimes from the top nearly to the stream bed, 400 feet or more in height and as much in breadth. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 It affords a vertical surface three or four inches high and situated three or four inches in front of the window, so as to deflect the cold air upward when the window is slightly opened. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science The prisoners climb the glass walls, on the more strongly lighted side; they ascend, descend, and seek to escape; the polished, vertical surface is for them quite easy to walk upon. Social Life in the Insect World The sharp claws of the bee-eaters enable the birds to obtain a foothold on an almost vertical surface; this foothold is strengthened by the tail which, being stiff, acts as a third leg. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Large vertical surfaces of rock were carefully sought after for tombs, and the almost inaccessible cliffs of Pantalica and Cassibile are literally honeycombed with them. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Attach the paper to a firm vertical surface, such as the side of a box, a drawing board, a wall, etc. Things To Make On vertical surfaces such protection is not necessary; the use of ceramics should therefore be confined for the most part to such surfaces: for friezes, panels, door and window architraves, and the like. Architecture and Democracy Between their hulls and the vertical surface of the wharfs would be formed mountains of restless rubbish eaten underneath by the fish and pecked above by the sea-gulls. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel The tail consists of a horizontal and vertical surface placed on a universal joint about 10 feet back of the rear edge of the main plane. Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship A small fixed vertical surface was carried in the rear. A History of Aeronautics To climb a vertical surface, and to find points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to Jean Valjean. Les Misérables No other sound came from it, and lifting his hand and advancing a step or two, Clare felt the vertical surface of the structure. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Some are unable to climb a vertical surface; others do so readily. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior In nature they are taken occasionally on gravelly or sandy ground, but probably live also among rocks and adhere to them in the same way as to vertical surfaces in captivity. Hormones and Heredity Two flat vertical surfaces, one on each side of the street, each white. and grey, extend onwards and approach in mathematical ratio. The Life of the Fields Farman's machine has no vertical surfaces, but there are hinged wing tips to the outer rear-edges of its surfaces, for use in turning and balancing. Marvels of Modern Science This prevents her from falling as she darts along a vertical surface. More Hunting Wasps "I can see no foothold upon that vertical surface and yet he appears to be climbing with the utmost ease." Tarzan the Terrible The shape of the fins and the breadth of the body posteriorly, then, are adaptations which have a definite function, that of enabling the fish to adhere to vertical surfaces. Hormones and Heredity The less vertical surfaces of the rocks were thick with a speckled green plant growing in dense mossy clumps, upon which these creatures were browsing. The First Men in the Moon The Voisin biplane is fashioned after the manner of a box kite and therefore presents vertical surfaces to the air. Marvels of Modern Science These fishes have the peculiar habit of adhering to the vertical surfaces of sides of aquaria, even the smooth surfaces of slate or glass. Hormones and Heredity The latter tube represented the respiratory channel of the fish, and the space between tube and rubber represented the spaces between the head of the fish and the vertical surface to which it clung. Hormones and Heredity |
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