also hair-pin, 1788 (two words), from hair + pin (n.). A hairpin turn, etc., is from 1906. Hairpin (or clothespin) was American English slang for "person" c. 1880-1910, especially in the expression "That's the kind of hairpin I am."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.
這條路上急轉(zhuǎn)彎、坡道和死拐角一個(gè)接一個(gè)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. The roads twist round hairpin bends.
道路呈U字形蜿蜒曲折。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. There are eighteen hairpin bends on the way up Mogan Mountain.
莫干山上下都是一十八盤.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. I executed the hairpin turn high on the sheer western face of the mountains.
我在山脈西側(cè)陡峭的高處成功地急轉(zhuǎn)彎。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
5. Hairpin turns force the car to crawl at 10 miles an hour in some places.