corkscrew.
开瓶器,瓶塞钻,瓶颈螺旋,瓶口螺丝
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›an instrument typically consisting of a metal spiral with a sharp point at one end and a transverse handle at the other, used for drawing corks from bottles.
adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- ›resembling a corkscrew; helical; spiral.
- 1.
- ›to move in a spiral or zigzag course.
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Examples
These huge threads stretch hundreds of millions of light-years in space and twirl like giant corkscrews.
These tendrils stretching hundreds of millions of light-years spin, twirling like giant corkscrews.
Then, for reasons unknown to researchers, the whale switches to a loose corkscrew upward for the last 600 meters or so.
In my corkscrew travels I often like to revisit familiar, favorite regions looking for unfamiliar wines.
High-speed 3-D microscopy of human sperm swimming freely in the lab revealed that the cells corkscrew as they move, consistent with previous studies.
I asked, watching buzzards, white-backed vultures, and tawny eagles corkscrew skyward on thermals.
And a few infamous bugs, like the corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, which can be downright carcinogenic.
The path rose more steeply now with a spiral twist to the right like the final turn of a corkscrew.
I meant, we were both in love, he said with the ghost of a smile, if your corkscrew advances towards matrimony can be called love.
There was a noise at the other end of the room, as if something was crawling up the iron corkscrew stair.