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单词 ninepins
释义
ninepins
noun[plural]
UK
uk
/ˈnaɪn.pɪnz/us
/ˈnaɪn.pɪnz/
go down/fall like ninepins
tofall,break, or bedamagedinlargenumbers:
大批倒下；大量受损
Trees were going down like ninepins in thestrongwind.树木在狂风中横七竖八倒了一地。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
  • annihilate
  • annihilation
  • apocalypse
  • bash
  • bash through (something)
  • be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
  • fall in
  • in piecesidiom
  • indestructibility
  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
  • sacrifice
  • self-devouring
  • shred
  • sink
  • smash
  • stave
  • stavesomethingin
  • takesomethingout
  • tear
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(Definition ofninepinsfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofninepins

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It is terribly easy to set upninepinsand knock them down.
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I am in favour of meeting legitimate fears but not of knocking downninepins.
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One would get the impression that we were in the habit of knocking down judges as if they wereninepins.
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A large part of that speech was devoted to putting upninepinsand knocking them down.
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In the last war prices rose enormously, and when the slump came firms went down likeninepins.
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He is putting upninepinsin order to knock them down again.
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That group is like a row ofninepins.
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He seems to have been setting up a lot ofninepinsand knocking them down to his own satisfaction.
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We must not set upninepinsthat do not exist, and knock them down with magnificent rhetoric.
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But in 30 years from now, with the present strict hygiene rules, those households would probably go down likeninepins.
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I will not make a debating reply, responding to each point as though they had to be knocked down likeninepinsin the customary fashion.
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As soon as the doors of one company were closed, the rest went down likeninepins.
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If he wantsninepinsto knock down, let us have them.
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Thank goodness, it is not true to say that they are going down likeninepins.
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It is great fun knocking down one's ownninepins.
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