1.装有发条的;用手柄操作的that you operate by turning a key or handle
an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone装有发条的老式留声机
2.意欲结束的;终了的;收场的intended to bring sth to an end
a wind-up speech结束语
1.(informal)戏弄人或惹人气恼的言语(或行动)something that sb says or does in order to be deliberately annoying, especially as a joke
When somebody knocked AT the door and asked if Mr. Marcus was in, John got the wind up. He though it was the police!
当有人敲门问马库斯是否在家里,约翰吓了一大跳,他以为是警察来了!
He was trying to put the wind up him with stories of how hard teaching was.
他正极力用教学如何如何困难的说法来吓唬他。
But African immigrants are not the only ones who wind up in this bustling city in southern China.
在中国南方这个熙熙攘攘的城市中,非洲移民并非唯一忙碌着的外来群体。
The two boys got the wind up when they realized that their joke was likely to have serious consequences.
当那两个孩子意识到他们的笑话可能产生严重后果时,他们害怕起来。
This man is specially employed to wind up the crowd ready to be influenced by our speaker.
这个人是专门雇来调动听众情绪的,以使他们易于受到我们的演讲者的影响。
If I could go back in time to tell myself one thing, I'd almost certainly wind up harassing teenager me about buying CDs.
如果能回到过去,我一定会告诉自己不要使买CD了。
I always said he would wind up in jail.
我常说到头来他非进监狱不可。
After meeting his 15-month-old daughter, I found a wind-up toy bull in my bag that she could play with.
看到他刚刚15个月大的小女儿,我当时还从包里翻出一个上发条的玩具熊给她玩。
If you let your thoughts control you then you're going to wind up in a very strange maze of suffering with no apparent way out.
如果你让你的思维控制你,你就会陷入一种十分奇怪的迷宫,找不到出口。
One afternoon, she began to wind up wool into a ball. She needed at least five wool windings.
一天下午,她开始把羊毛卷成一个球,她至少需要5个羊毛球。
The U. S. could easily wind up in a crisis over the same lack of credibility.
由于公信力的缺失,美国也同样容易陷入危机。
You don't have to go very far from Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, before you wind up in Shenzhen or Shanghai.
在你结束深圳或上海的业务之前,你不用到位于阿肯色斯州本顿维尔的沃尔马总部很远的地方(不太懂作者的意思)。
Whatever you do, do not try to run through the pain. You will only make your injury worse and could wind up with a stress fracture.
不过你做什么,都不要在还在疼的时候跑步,这样只会让你更糟,也许会惹上疲劳骨折。
Being able to wind up a manager is satisfying, even if it doesn't quite work your way in terms of results.
能够让一个主教练发怵的结果令人满意的,即使他使用的并不是按照你所想的常规手段。
Those nomadic Wanderers usually makes me nervous, because you never know if they'll wind up in any sort of useful position.
这些游牧的流浪生物通常会令我感到不安,因为你永远无法得知是否他们会佔据到有用的位置。
First heard it about twenty minutes ago. I thought it was the wind up here.
第一次听到是二十分钟以前,我还以为是这上面的风声呢。
Is the attempt to make environmentally friendly roadways doomed to wind up in the toilet?
建造环保道路一定要拆除沿途的厕所吗?
Pink marble-paved streets wind up and down in a gentle undulation between houses and powers of flesh tone rock.
粉色大理石铺就的街道以一种优雅的形态起伏穿梭在肉色的房屋和高塔之间。
How the hell we wind up like this? Why weren't we able to see the signs that we missed and try to turn the tables?
我们到底怎麽会这样结束?为何我们没有能够看到我们所遗漏的徵兆而试著扭转劣势呢?。
It could never have crossed his mind that he would wind up with a security adviser having a constituency of his own.
他未曾料到最终却找到了一位身后有一批人追随的国家安全顾问。
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