2SIDEnot looking, pointing etc directly at something 斜的,倾斜的
an oblique glance
斜瞥
3.oblique line/stroke etcAVDa sloping line etc 斜线等
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oblique line/stroke etc• The gillopenings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys.• The apparentmovement of both the lion and the Cupids along an imaginary, oblique line is largely responsible for this effect.• Also it should be lit at night and have trafficcones placed in an oblique line on the approach to it.
4.oblique angletechnicalHM an angle that is not 90 degrees 斜角
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oblique angle• After a few embarrassed minutes the mourners slowly departed, leaving Flaubert jammed into the ground at an oblique angle.• You can make it look two or three times thicker that way, by cutting on a really oblique angle.• Coastal Refraction alters the bearings, particularly when bearings are at an oblique angle to the coastline. 6.• One is to enter a drama at an oblique angle to the main issue.
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oblique• Press him too closely about his family, though, and he becomes oblique and evasive.• Albeit in an obliquefashion, SovietSocialistRealism thus influenced the development of western high art.• Also it should be lit at night and have trafficcones placed in an oblique line on the approach to it.• an oblique line• She gave me an oblique look.• She changed the subject when I posed an oblique question about the boys' father.• Reneé made obliquereferences to his drinking problem.• an obliqueroute• Both conventional and oblique viewing are possible.• It was only in such oblique ways that he referred to his state of deserted, now divorced, husband.
oblique reference• Cuthbert's oblique reference to Aldfrith in his reply seems to have satisfied her.• The story of Aphrodite does include an oblique reference to Demeter.• It contains one direct and one oblique reference to electricalshocks.