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词汇 wend
释义 wend
verb
uk /wend/ us /wend/
 wend your way
to move slowly and not directly: 缓慢迂回地行进
The thieves then wended their way through the dark back streets to the docks.盗贼们鬼鬼祟祟地穿过黑暗的后街向码头走去。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Slow and moving slowly
(as) slow as molassesidiom
at a snail's paceidiom
by and byidiom
by degreesidiom
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
float
hang around
in ones and twosidiom
inch by inchidiom
infiltrate
infiltration
jog
labour
sluggish
sluggishly
sluggishness
snail
staged
struggle
wander

Examples of wend


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Specification becomes even more problematic when one considers the several macro-arguments wending their way through this narrative.
Yet the \\t\\ at the end is reassuringly past-like, and of course it was, historically, the past of ' wend '.
Through these she beckons and cajoles her followers as they wend their way across the temporal expanses of the other strata.
Many of them wend a lot of the winter burrowing under the snow trying to find turnips.
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I saw the postmen wending their way to the post office between five and six o'clock in the morning.
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I noticed this afternoon that we were still wending our weary way through statements after 5 o'clock.
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I will not pursue the question of the rural bus with the trailer, wending its way through the country lanes.
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I hope it helps the unemployed, as they wend their way to the unemployment exchange, to know that a positive response made them unemployed.
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We hope that these amendments will help the small landowner to wend his way through this maze of legislation.
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It is not easy to wend one's way through the matter or to decipher it, whichever method is used.
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They wend their way heavily laden like mules.
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Quite horrifyingly, one of my children is currently wending her way across the world.
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If you wanted things done he would just wend his way up to the council house and see what he could do about it.
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Wending our way through the double negative, we discover that the effect is that standing orders must prevent the appointment of any committee with functions not relating to devolved matters.
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There is now scarcely any road along which motor omnibuses or coaches do not wend their way, with the resulting improvement of many of the outside areas.
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