sways

英 [sweɪz]

美 [sweɪz]

v.  (使)摇摆，摇动; 说服; 使相信; 使动摇
sway的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 摇晃;摇摆;摆动
  When people or thingssway, they lean or swing slowly from one side to the other.
  1. The people swayed back and forth with arms linked...
     人们手挽手，前后摇晃着。
  2. The whole boat swayed and tipped.
     整条船摇晃后翻倒了。
  3. ...a coastal highway lined with tall, swaying palm trees.
     两旁有摇曳的高大棕榈树的沿海公路
• VERB 影响;左右
  If youare swayed bysomeone or something, you are influenced by them.
  1. Don't ever be swayed by fashion.
     永远不要受潮流的影响。
  2. ...last minute efforts by the main political parties to sway the voters in tomorrow's local elections.
     主要政党为说服选民在明天的地方选举中投自己一票而作出的最后努力
• PHRASE 占统治地位;具有重大影响力
  If someone or somethingholds sway, they have great power or influence over a particular place or activity.
  1. South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway...
     阿斯克以南盛行的似乎是一种完全不同的方式。
  2. The 'families' are the basic units, each holding sway over a recognised territory.
     “家庭”是基本单位，每一个家庭都控制着自己受人认可的领地。
• PHRASE 在…的控制下;在…的支配下;在…的影响下
  If you areunder the sway ofsomeone or something, they have great influence over you.
  1. How mothers keep daughters under their sway is the subject of the next five sections.
     在接下来的 5 节将探讨母亲怎样管教女儿。

双语例句

• The popular standard of truth always sways between leftism and rightism in the practice of value since it despises the speciality of subject consciousness, dims the value peculiarity of the truth.
  在我国社会生活中，流行的真理标准观轻视人的主体性，淡漠真理的价值性，影响到人们在价值实践中，总是避免不了左倾和右倾的摇摆。
• Venice is spooky under its grainy November skies. The city creaks and sways like a fishing pier.
  威尼斯在11月的粒状天空下让人毛骨悚然，像渔船码头般嘎嘎响，东摇西晃。
• Michael McGinnis says advertising sways children in several ways.
  迈克儿马蒂尼说广告在几个方面影响这儿童。
• Here, the crimson skirt of a tribeswoman sways during a performance at the Ndumu Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.
  这里，一位部落的妇女穿深红色裙子摇摆，当一个表演在恩杜穆游戏储备在库哇语祖鲁语――南非的纳塔尔。
• As the heavy cars pass, the bridge sways.
  当重型车辆经过，这座桥摇来摇去。
• If beauty sways interviewers, the beautiful will, by and large, have more successful careers than the ugly& even in careers for which beauty is not a necessary qualification.
  如果美丽会打动面试官，那么从总体上看，美丽的人比丑陋的人有更多事业成功&即便在那些美丽非必须条件的行业。
• A tuft of grass atop the wall sways right and left in the wind.
  墙上一棵草，风吹两边倒。
• Industry competitiveness is the main factor that sways Fujian's present and future economic development.
  产业竞争力是影响当前和未来福建经济发展的主要因素。
• Using the theory of cultural research, Saul Bellow himself is also "the hanging human", as the same as the characters of his works, he always sways between the American culture and the Jewish culture.
  如果从文化的角度研究，和其作品中的主人公一样，贝娄本身也是这样一个晃来晃去的人，他始终在美国文化和犹太文化之间摇晃。
• I think such sentiment profoundly sways the career choices people make.
  我想这样的情绪会对人们的职业选择产生深远的影响。