sway
/ˈsweɪ̯/ 名词 C1中文： 摇摆、支配、影响
- The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
- A rocking or swinging motion. · The old song caused a little sway in everyone in the room.
- Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side · I doubt I'll hold much sway with someone so powerful.
- Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
- Rule; dominion; control; power.
- A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
- Synonym of sweet flag (“Acorus calamus”)
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Is it a coincidence that it is found at the very point where the train pitches and sways as it comes round on the points?
Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
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