at a slight/steep angle• He had a beard and his foreheadsloped back at a steep angle.• Both chairs are placed securely, with the free chair at a slight angle to where the patient is sitting.• She went about with her head at a slight angle and her eyes permanently narrowed, to avoid the smoke.• In two speciesexamined the crystals lie parallel to the surface and in another two they lie at a steep angle.• His wig was now at a slight angle.• Christabel's tombstone leaned over at a slight angle.• In distinctivedisplayflightflapsupwardsat a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised.
5CFthe shape formed when two lines or surfaces join 〔两条线或两个平面相交的〕边角
an angle of something• He lay head towards the door and at an angle offorty-five degrees from the bed, his shoes touching the end.• Or that one must approach at an angle ofattack of precisely 10 degrees, and attain exactly 18 degrees on take-off?• His shirt-tails flapping in the breeze, he faced the green at an angle of forty-five degrees and sliced every shot.• First, the meteorites crossed the dome traveling at an angle of only twenty-seven degrees to the horizon.• Tucked away unobtrusively in an angle of the river wall, it was also protected by a brickoverhang.• Switching angles of 3 and 6 degrees produce a faster travel than an angle of 0 degrees.• Titron went over to an angle of thirty-five degrees.
every angle• Views of all parties are taken into account; every angle is examined.• In fact they now covered every angle in every room in the hotel.• Never before have so many people had directaccess to information from every angle.• The mayor took along a disposablecamera with 36 frames and took pictures from every angle. of the room.• Scientists have attacked the problem from every angle, by education, improvinghygiene and eradicating the snail.• The pattern is the same from every angle, which affordsconsiderablefreedom in the placement of the rug.• Cameras caress them from every angle.• One hip shifted her weight to that side, and suddenly every angle softly flowed into another.
from a ... angle• The fall of Wulfgeat in 1006 is also interestingfrom another angle.• A standard computer would proceed one step at a time, while we approach the issue from many different angles at once.• Sometimes the pitfalls in not looking at it from all these angles become painfully clear.• Henry Thoreau wrote that one sees the world more clearly if one looks at it from an angle.• He looked at Leefrom an angle, cool and fixed, with a slownod of the head to measure remarks.• It calls for turning around and approaching the problem from a completely different angle.• They should enter into those ideas, and see them from various angles.• Investigators were photographing the wreckagefrom all angles, and searching for a data recorder that had been aboard the freight train.
angle2 verb [transitiveT]
1VERTICALto move or place something so that it is not straight or upright 斜移;斜置
a mirror angled to reflect light from a window
为反射窗外的光线而斜放的一面镜子
Philip angled his chair towards the door.
菲利普转过椅子对着门口。
2UNFAIRto present information from a particular point of view or for a specific group of people 从〔某个角度〕报道;以〔某一群体〕提供信息
The book is angled towards a business audience.
这本书的目标读者是商界人士。
3angle for somethingphrasal verbphr vTRY TO DO OR GET somethingto try to get something you want without asking directly for it 转弯抹角地索要
She was obviously angling for an invitation.
她显然是在拐弯抹角地要请柬。
I didn’t want him to think I was just angling for sympathy.
我不想让他认为我只是在博取同情。
Examples from the Corpus
angle for • She was a player like everyone else, angling for a position.• With dozens of factionsangling for a second invasion, something had to happen soon.• And he will angle for an early officialvisit to Washington.• Instead we angled for lower-paying jobs in corporatefinance.• If over 5°, use bank, but less than Rate 1 angle for small heading changes. 4.• Their other job was to ensure that the capsule was oriented at the correctangle for the remainingdescent.• Votes of religious conservatives could decide the election, and all the candidates are angling for their support.• The bullets had followed each other too quickly from different angles for them to have been fired by the same person.