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词汇 hairpin-turn
释义 hairpin turn
noun[ C ]
USus/ˌher.pɪn ˈtɝːn/uk /ˌheə.pɪn ˈtɜːn/(UKhairpin bend)
a bend in the road that is so sharp that it almost turns back in the opposite direction
 
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Examples of hairpin turn


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The boat crests the hill and makes a left turn, in preparation for a dropping, right-hand, hairpinturn.
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The route heads through wooded areas of homes and makes a hairpinturn to the northwest to ascend a hill.
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The obstacle consists of a short course which includes a hairpinturn and a reverse into a final parking space.
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The train then hits another hairpinturn into another short drop.
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The changes to the track included a series of corners before the hairpinturn, meaning safer, slower races.
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The course consists of a precision forward into a hairpinturn before reversing the boat into the water.
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The track featured only 8 turns, 7 of which were 90 degree turns and the other a 180 degree hairpinturn.
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In the full configuration, it consists of a tight right hairpinturn followed by a left-right flick.
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The scenic route makes a hairpinturn to the north and begins to descend the mountain, again a three-lane road but with two lanes westbound.
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At one end was a hairpinturn which drivers negotiated at around 30mi/h km/h.
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At the end of this run came a hairpinturn which led to a long curve around the bottom of a hill.
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The mine consists of a long sinuous gallery, often with a hairpinturn.
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Now and then, a hairpinturn occurs.
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In this system, the aorta starts as the ascending aorta then travels superiorly from the heart and then makes a hairpinturn known as the aortic arch.
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It is a single road full of hairpin turns, the surface of which is very bad and continually under repair owing to the ravages of heavy mechanical transport.
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