| 单词 | block and tackle |
| 例句 | At one end of the cove, an enormous pileup of wreckage from years of storms provided a steady supply of firewood: block and tackle, hatch gratings, spars, masts, lockers. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The block and tackle parted under the strain, sending the ferret and the rats on the level shooting down into the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “And I,” said Arthur, “will see about the equipment for tonight. We’ll need shovels, crowbars, block and tackle, rollers...” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z We had used a block and tackle and two hooks to raise the pig by its rear ankles. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He rigged a block and tackle to supplement a dead tree limb that they were using as a lever. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Tools for emergency, tow lines, a small block and tackle, a trenching tool and crowbar, tools for making and fixing and improvising. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Successful whaling crews have always hauled the massive animals onto the ice using a block and tackle. Whale hunting in Alaska: Point Hope, the village caught between tradition and climate change 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z I was on the hunt for a gift and gravitated first to an old wooden block and tackle. Critical Shopper: A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home 2011-01-19T23:48:52Z “Chain gangs,” likely all D.C. residents, constructed entire viaducts and bridges with “no machinery or appliances other than a common block and tackle” to accommodate the park’s roadways. Opinion | Leave Rock Creek Park’s upper Beach Drive closed to cars 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Let players start to block and tackle in football and hit volleyballs in campus facilities while doing their best to sanitize equipment and social distance when possible. Column: It's time to trust coaches and educators: Let kids play sports 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Throughout his career, Torricelli was proud to block and tackle for Trump and the casino industry, which rewarded his advocacy with campaign donations. Atlantic City has a warning for the nation: Donald Trump brings ruin and despair 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z “They’re going to see it. They’re going to hear it. What you try to emphasize is the facts. Here are the facts: if we block and tackle people, we’re pretty good.” Despite ugly loss, Georgia has another clear path to playoff 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Who rode to the rescue with a block and tackle to extricate the steeds? How to haul goods in the 1800s? By horse, of course. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “We just need to block and tackle on the field as well as off it.” The New A.A.F. Is Betting on Football, and on Betting 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Defenses drop two defensive backs and a lineman. The rules and fundamentals are mostly the same as the 11-player version; you still have to block and tackle. ‘There’s no place to go after eight-man’: Small towns seek to preserve football 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z A good, solid, responsible team that could block and tackle and not make the silly mistakes that his glamor teams always did. Maybe just this once it's OK to feel sorry for the Cowboys' Jerry Jones 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z ‘If you feel you are getting trouble on this just give me a holler, and I will block and tackle.’ Chuck Schumer Prepares for His Next Challenge: Leading Senate Democrats 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Braddock had to cross the Alleghenies, using block and tackle from the naval vessels. Making Maps Under Fire During the Revolutionary War While she was learning how to block and tackle, she was also learning about lifestyles and experiences that were foreign to her. Women’s football helps Mormon family tackle son’s sexuality 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z “It required much effort to get it with a block and tackle, seven men being required to lift and carry it,” the report stated. EXCHANGE: 100 years since Lovejoy press lifted from river 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z And while they don’t block and tackle or set screens in the sports-related sense, there is true competition between schools for top students — and top funders. Georgia editorial roundup 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “You need to block and tackle to play football, and I think we’re afraid to hurt somebody. Even though what happened with Tyler was an anomaly, I think we’re all a little gun shy.” Football Injuries Lead to Steady Stream of High School Forfeitures 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Part of that work entails the basic block and tackle of mining your network for business. Five Things To Check Before You Start Your Own Business 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The daily produce is transported from garden to kitchen in a retro-old-world manner: dropped in a basket and lowered with a block and tackle. | Rosemary’s: At Rosemary’s, Elegant Newlyweds, Out With the Boss 2012-08-18T05:29:51Z Then came the noise of brushwood being removed, and a block and tackle were lowered through the chimneylike aperture. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z “When Paul was educating me about alternative investments, I thought what better alternative investment than my own business, where I can block and tackle and build myself.” Value Added: Tequila?s newest stars? Timberlake, Clooney and .?.?. Otto Hoernig III 2012-04-09T00:37:46Z They therefore obtained the assistance of some sailors with block and tackle from a ship in the harbor, set up a tripod of spars, cut for shipment, over which they put the rope. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z He brought horses and wagons, block and tackle, and massive steel trucks. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z No, the block and tackle were not working. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z So why was a block and tackle hoisting organ parts into the choir loft last week? City Room: A Rescued Organ Gets a New Life in Manhattan 2012-01-29T19:30:36Z It is a terrible sight to see poor oxen hoisted up in straps with block and tackle and whirled into the storm-lashed ocean. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Between those two poles were suspended, by block and tackle, the aërials, or antennæ, by which messages were caught and sent. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z The sled was attached by block and tackle to a tree on the summit and lowered nearly half way, when the bearing was shifted as far down as possible and a new start taken. The Mountains of Oregon 2011-07-17T02:00:38.297Z He sat up and pulled out a block and tackle; and with it he fell to hammering at a stay. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z “I tied a steel cable around a beam in the attic for our block and tackle,” he said. City Room: A Rescued Organ Gets a New Life in Manhattan 2012-01-29T19:30:36Z As the sun set, policemen and firemen recovered the charred corpses, lowering some by block and tackle to the sidewalk to join the broken bodies of the co-workers who had jumped. City Room: Triangle Fire: A Half-Hour of Horror 2011-03-21T11:30:44Z "Get a rope," he said to one of his men, and when the rope arrived Abiboo scrambled up to the lower branch of a copal-gum and scientifically lashed a block and tackle. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z A quartermaster, summoned from the forecastle, hoisted a block and tackle to a derrick. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z They block and tackle well, run routes properly, and always execute their assignments. Tanier: NFL playoffs aren't the time to get fancy 2011-01-12T01:01:34Z Under the eaves there is a pulley by which the bundles of wood are pulled up from the street by a block and tackle and swung in under the roof. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Spite rigged block and tackle and windlass, such as had been used to hoist Twist; then he fastened ropes to Biggy's tail, and bade the Pixies pull away. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies In the course of time the white men came with their steamboats, their little brass guns, and the identical block and tackle, which they fastened to the identical tree and utilised in the inevitable manner. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Why, you couldn't hold him back with a block and tackle. The Haunted Pajamas A block and tackle is rigged up and we have repeated tugs of war, during which I get my hands very grimy and receive a number of friendly admonitions not to work too hard. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York Projecting from one side of the house is an iron arm, at the end of which hang a block and tackle. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 After great exertion he managed to climb the slippery mast, carrying a block and tackle with him. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers Full of a wild gayety, and untiring as a boy, Barbe had worked all day, getting the sails bent, the stores on board, the last of block and tackle into place. International Short Stories American A small boat was lowered, lines were made fast to the dead fish with block and tackle, and we hauled him on deck. Eleven Possible Cases Trees growing near the stream were “bowsed out”—that is, hauled with block and tackle to the river’s bank. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 The men on the steamer started to haul in and the life-savers bent on a larger rope with a block and tackle. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers We'll be here with block and tackle in less than an hour. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters At last, somebody managed to bring her down, but it was quite a struggle needing ropes, a block and tackle, and a cradle. Letters from my Windmill A block and tackle are hitched to the top of a tall tree that has been left standing in a clearing, and the steel ropes are placed round the fallen trunks. Westward with the Prince of Wales And why, thinks I, should the old craft all at once be troubled by all this pother of block and tackle and hammer and saw? The Cruise of the Shining Light Astride of his plank, which hung suspended in midair by a block and tackle at either end, the seaman faced the task that seemed to have no end. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas This done, a group headed by Romper Ryan removed shoes and stockings and began to ford the shallow stream, carrying the block and tackle with them. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters We could not lift the fish up on the stern and we had to tow him over to Mr. Jump’s boat and there haul him aboard by block and tackle. Tales of Fishes All the goods had to be unloaded and all the scows were hauled up the steep bank by means of a block and tackle. Young Alaskans in the Far North Had his bulk been in proportion to his trance, I should have needed a block and tackle and a derrick to raise this later Lazarus. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm He soon notified his companions of what the cave contained, and asked them to send up the block and tackle on the rope he had dragged over the pinnacle. The Boy Scouts on the Yukon The others remained to help Bruce rig up the shears and put the block and tackle into place. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters There was block and tackle for each corner post and a winch at each end of the car. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs "He will lead you to a place more terrible," said M'ilitani, significantly, and sent a nimble climber into the trees to fasten a block and tackle to a stout branch, and thread a rope through. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country He found Johnny in the barn, rigging a new block and tackle for the hayloft. Make Mine Homogenized In the centre of the grass were shears with a stone hanging from them on block and tackle. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Then, under Bruce's direction, several wove the cordage into a block and tackle arrangement. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters Swung out, its block and tackle, operated by a one-pony windlass, could hoist or lower a two-pony load in the light basket cage woven of wire and withes. Bloom of Cactus Masters, however, found a block and tackle and rigged it to a beam above the pot. The Whispering Spheres Here there was more hay, and also some old farm implements which had evidently been hoisted there by means of a block and tackle. The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods A block and tackle was therefore quickly rigged up by Bluenose, by which they were lowered. The Lifeboat A vigorous pull at a block and tackle sent it up on the side of the smack. The Young Trawler The sail was then loosely stowed for a while, and a double-purchase block and tackle rigged up in its place on the stay. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea There lay the hopes of the species on this planet, wrecked with a block and tackle. The Whispering Spheres The limb of the tree that hung out over the scene, from which block and tackle had hung, was beginning to lose its smoke-blackened appearance. Highways in Hiding The larger projectiles had to be whipped up to the muzzle with block and tackle. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Sixteen persons were housed in the Home Telephone Building with a block and tackle rigged as a means of egress if the fire pressed them. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Tom White, in a long, white flowing robe, with gauze veils over his face, is pulled up by a block and tackle, the rope concealed by the long, white robe. Watch Yourself Go By While all this was going on a deckhand had reeved a block and tackle through the end of the cargo gaff and passed it to the winch. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates But who would reject a block and tackle in favor of an impossibly strong man? Highways in Hiding The faint creak of block and tackle reached her listening ears, which she strained and strained, even closing her eyes that she might concentrate wholly on the sense of hearing. The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar The chair that is properly constructed may be almost as solid as if it were of one piece, and still not require a block and tackle to move it. The Complete Home A combination of pulleys called block and tackle is used where very heavy loads are to be moved. General Science Clear and near sounded the ship's bell on the Ariani; a moment's rattle of block and tackle, a dull call, answered; and silence. The Firing Line The car had been hauled off you by block and tackle. Highways in Hiding After a long time he apparently gave it up, for the sparking at the masthead ceased suddenly, followed by a brief period of silence on board, then the creaking of block and tackle was renewed. The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar The schooner got well to windward of the place where the set was to be made, and the first dory was lowered by a block and tackle. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Using block and tackle in hoisting was a great help. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Ropes being tied around both his wrists, the block and tackle were fastened thereto, and George soon found himself hoisted on tip-toe with his feet almost clear of the floor. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. I am esper enough to dig that distance with clarity, so we knew we'd better bring along the block and tackle. Highways in Hiding The tall young man came to his feet, slowly, as if hoisted from above by an invisible block and tackle. V. V.'s Eyes They pulled the man up with block and tackle. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 By means of a block and tackle attached to a large tree the remaining carts and the boat-carriage were safely lowered to the bed of the stream. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 The hook of a block and tackle had caught him, ripped his forehead open from cheek to temple, and for a time threatened the sight of the eye. Spanish Doubloons Perry was trying, with block and tackle, to mount a carronade. D'Ri and I "The police took it away last night—lowered it out of the window with a block and tackle," answered the scrivener. By Advice of Counsel Lyra cleared the path and laid the logs for rollers, while Kermit dragged the dugouts up the bank from the water with block and tackle, with strain of rope and muscle. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The creaking of a block and tackle came to their ears, and they heard Red Nelson's voice singing out: "Lower away!" and "Cast off!" The Cruise of the Dazzler And they couldn't of got that rock off'n him without a block and tackle, or done much to make things easy for him if they had, him being jest a smear, as you may say. Spanish Doubloons Papa took a block and tackle and got some men to help him and they pulled it back up straight. The Life of Me; an autobiography "I moskenoed his block and tackle, and blued it in the school." Three Elephant Power and Other Stories With block and tackle the seven dugouts were hoisted out of the river up the steep banks, and up the rise of ground until the level was reached. Through the Brazilian Wilderness You might be willing to pay big bucks for a B-2 superstar quarterback, but you will also need lower cost and capable riflemen or destroyers to block and tackle. Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance There was a little inlet running right up into the jungle, so the pirates had had little trouble in getting the boats ashore, using a block and tackle on a convenient cocoanut-palm. The Devil's Admiral Accordingly, a windlass had been constructed on the edge of the precipice and the machinery had been lowered, piece by piece, by block and tackle. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Darrow told us to take clothes for a week, an axe apiece, and a block and tackle. The Mystery With this end in view a block and tackle was rigged on the surface of the plateau, and the ivory and gold hauled out as fast as the boys could load it. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic Sanborn came hastily scrambling down the ladder, and a few seconds later a block and tackle were lowered. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest With block and tackle to help the engines they finally got above the swift water, and had no further serious trouble. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons He was so large and heavy that we had to fix the ice-anchor, and drag him up with block and tackle, as if he had been a walrus. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 His force included a corps of seamen equipped with block and tackle to raise and lower his wagons in the steep inclines of the Alleghanies. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway So by means of block and tackle the wet camel was hoisted onto the deck of the Zouave, which then set sail. Tartarin De Tarascon It was then an easy task to lower her with the block and tackle till she floated on the water. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest “You couldn’t get a quarter of an inch of slack with block and tackle,” he assured them. The Jacket (Star-Rover) |
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