7.take somebody under your wingPROTECTto help and protect someone who is younger or less experienced than you are 把某人保护在自己的羽翼之下,将某人置于自己的庇护之下
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take somebody under your wing• Gyorgy Aczel, the liberal-minded ideologychief, spotted the talentedregionalboss and took him under his wings.• They monitor the student at the work site and take them under their wing.• He understood that the boy had had little formaleducation until Edouard took him under his wing.• Adrienne, eleven years older, had taken the 19-year-old singer under her wing.• Adrienne, eleven years older, had taken her under her wing.• Simon's uncle had taken him under his wing, so Simon and his wife, Mary, half lived there.• He had sized me up, he later explained, and had decided to take me under his wing.• He had sized me up, he said, and had decided to take me under his wing.• Nor could you expect some sage old workman to take you under his wing and bestow upon you his store of knowledge.• Tom took the young reporter under his wing.
8(waiting/lurking) in the wingsREADYready to do something or be used when the time is right 准备就绪〔只待时机成熟〕;随时可以使用
Several junior managers are waiting in the wings for promotion.
几位低层经理正等着晋升。
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(waiting/lurking) in the wings• On Concorde, though, the engines are embeddedin the wings, next to the fueltanks.• He stopped by on his night off, was let in the stage door, and stood in the wings.• Platt has had to waitin the wings because he is one of four foreignplayersfighting for the permitted three places.• The local chapterleaders waiting in the wings seemed upset.• None the less, there are always people waiting in the wings to discredit a positiveimage.• There were no wealthyaunts or uncles waiting in the wings.
9.THEATRE 剧场the wings[plural]APT the parts at each side of a stage where actors are hidden from people who are watching the play 〔舞台的〕侧面,侧翼
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the wings• Special care is needed if the wings are wet when extraspeed is necessary, because the stalling speed is raised.• Many unforeseendangers may be lurking in the wings.• Scheiner was still in the wings at the time of the trial.• The world's list of mammals is about five thousand long, but three thousand more may be waiting in the wings.• None the less, there are always people waiting in the wings to discredit a positiveimage.• Why do they think the wings are designed this way?
10.on a wing and a prayerif you do something on a wing and a prayer, you do not have much chance of succeeding 只有一丝成功的希望
11.be on the wingliteraryHBBTRAVEL if a bird is on the wing, it is flying 〔鸟〕在飞行中,飞翔
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be on the wing• May flies and caddis flies were on the wing.• This area is noted for butterflies in the summer, and in August the purple hairstreak will be on the wing.
flapped ... wings• When he looked around, the wowhawk on her shoulderflapped its wings in his face.• The wowhawk flapped its wings desperately. ` Let go!
north/east etc wing• It stretched away into the darkness towards the emptynorth wing.• These stones were removed when this monument was demolished and built in steps in the east wing of the villa.• Thus I found myself spending a good deal of time in the East Wing.• In the east wing of the hospital there was a linenstore that was never used after about nine-thirty in the morning.• She was found by the caretaker, whimpering and exhausted on the ground floor of the east wing.• In the plans, the east wing next to SuperTarget carried a sign with the Gordmans logo.• The north wing with its range of rooms has more the appearance of a hostelry than a house.
wing2 verb
1[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] literaryTRAVEL to fly somewhere 飞行,飞
a flock of geese winging down the coast
沿着海岸展翅南飞的雁群
wing its/their way to/across etc something
planes winging their way to exotic destinations
飞往异国目的地的飞机
2wing its/their wayto go or be sent somewhere very quickly 很快去/被送到(某处)
wing its/their way to
A bottle of champagne will soon be winging its way to 10 lucky winners.
3wing itspokenPLAN to do something without planning or preparing it 临时凑成;即席而为
We’ll just have to wing it.
我们就只好临时应付一下。
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wing it• I don't have time to write a speech, so I'm just going to wing it.• I would have to wing it.• If you are asked a question that you're not ready for, it's better to say "I hadn't considered that" than to wing it and get it wrong.• Nat grabs it, whirls, and wings it in a singlemotion.• We have to wing it in the first game, but we'll be more prepared for the next one.• Really, I just wing it: no notes, no talking to witnesses.• I figure I can wing it on the details.• There's always a Zen part of my personality that wings it through life.• When I finally got up on to the wing it was dark.