Clearly, Japanese carpenters of the day knew a few tricks about allowing a building to sway and settle itself rather than fight nature's forces.(显然,当时日本的木匠知道一些技巧,这些技巧可以使建筑能够摇晃并且稳定下来,而不是与自然的力量进行抗衡。)
A hard-core group of right-wing senators had hoped to sway their colleagues.(一群骨干右翼参议员曾企图左右他们的同事。)
On the other, the new generation can find it more difficult to advance an argument that typically holds little sway to a nevertiree.(另一方面,新一代可能会发现,提出一种通常对从不自由的人几乎没有影响力的论点会变得更加困难。)
She leads a second horse, an old sway-backed mare.(她牵着另一匹马,一匹摇摇晃晃的老母马。)
Shall we sway backward and forward, Mary, as if we were dervishes?(玛丽,我们要不要前后晃来晃去,就好像我们是托钵僧似的?)
"Their main defense is basically hanging on the tree, looking like a twig," Brock said, "it will even sway in the wind."(布洛克说:“它们的主要自卫手段是装成树枝挂在树上,有时甚至还能随风摇摆。”)
Don't let anyone else's opinions sway you.(不要让其他人的观点影响了你。)
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.(树枝一弯,我能感到梯子一偏。)
Yet the theory continues to hold sway.(然而这种理论还是继续占据主导地位。)
Rebel forces hold sway over much of the island.(该岛很大一部分控制在叛军手里。)